Chapter Summaries

Ye Qiyan learned that Ten Warehouse Rice City's lord planned to sacrifice Train Conductors to raise the platform's level, and he rushed toward the city platform to stop him. Meanwhile, Zhao Lin stayed aboard her train as Zhao An and the others followed the city's invitation.

• Kewai gave Ye Qiyan thirteen Train Coins and explained how Ten Warehouse Rice City had used sacrifices to advance toward level 8.
• Ye Qiyan learned that the summoned Train Conductors were at the central platform, then rode off to reach them.
• At Ten Warehouse Rice City's central platform, Zhao Lin stayed on her train while Zhao An and the others accepted the city's invitation.
• Zhao Lin told Shangguan Yingxue she felt unwell, locked herself inside, and refused to join the group.
• The man in white led the nine Train Conductors toward the city lord while Shangguan Yingxue followed behind.

Ye Qiyan rescued Zhao Lin from the people in white attacking her train at Ten Warehouse Rice City. After learning that the city lord planned to sacrifice ten Train Conductors in an Ascension Ritual, Ye Qiyan realized his goal was to stop it.

• The people in white battered Zhao Lin’s train and tried to force her to visit the city lord, so she prepared to use a bomb rather than be captured.
• Ye Qiyan arrived, killed the attackers with the Demon Ravens, and revived Zhao Lin with a Whiteforest Fruit.
• Ye Qiyan told Zhao Lin she owed him Train Coins for saving her, then considered whether to collect the abandoned trains around the station.
• Ye Qiyan sensed that Ten Warehouse Rice City’s Platform World needed the power of ten sacrificed Train Conductors to complete its Ascension Ritual.
• Ye Qiyan decided to sabotage the ritual, knowing Shangguan Yingxue had already been taken to the city.

Shangguan Yingxue and the other Train Conductors were ambushed and captured by the cyborgs of Ten Warehouse Rice City, whose scientist leader planned to sacrifice them at a bloody altar. Ye Qiyan arrived to rescue them, destroyed the altar with the Carved Tears Sword, and drew a second blade as the scientist accused him of blasphemy.

• Shangguan Yingxue sensed a rusty smell at the building and tried to leave, but the white-clad figures surrounded the Train Conductors.
• Zhao An used his Talent to attack the cyborgs, but the scientist trapped the group with electrified ropes and had them taken into the altar.
• The scientist revealed that he needed one final sacrifice to win a god's favor and flew off to find the missing person.
• Ye Qiyan shot the scientist's mechanical arm and several cyborgs, then summoned the Red Tears Demon to strike the altar with the Carved Tears Sword.
• The scientist accused Ye Qiyan of blaspheming against a god, and Ye Qiyan drew Famous Blade · Cool Sky Moon Concealment beside the Carved Tears Sword.

Ye Qiyan used Bewitchment to make Qiao Jie explain his sacrifice ritual, his past as a Train Conductor, and how to reach level 8 platforms. After Qiao Jie summoned hordes of living modified victims, Ye Qiyan prepared to use Ascension against them.

• Qiao Jie summoned a giant creature made of machinery and human faces and threatened Ye Qiyan for disrupting his ritual.
• Ye Qiyan used Bewitchment to make Qiao Jie explain that he planned to sacrifice ten Train Conductors to upgrade the Platform World and become an apostle of the God of Machinery and Flesh.
• Qiao Jie told Ye Qiyan that platforms from level 8 onward could be reached when a train's stop lasted longer than twenty-four hours.
• Ye Qiyan ordered Red Tears to slash the creature, and the attack severed it and shattered the altar.
• Qiao Jie realized Ye Qiyan had tricked him, then summoned modified humans and high-level Train Conductor monsters to attack.
• Ye Qiyan opened the Book of the Unreal and the Real, took out an enchanted dagger, and began Ascension.

Ye Qiyan’s Book of the Unreal and the Real drove Qiao Jie’s creations and mind into chaos, while Ye Qiyan pursued the fleeing former Train Conductor. Qiao Jie reached his buried train but was captured by the Raven Demon as Ye Qiyan arrived.

• Ye Qiyan’s purplish-red radiance caused the modified people to attack one another and Qiao Jie, who fled toward his train.
• Ye Qiyan ordered Red Tears to kill the modified people and warned Shangguan Yingxue and the others that he would charge them for saving their lives.
• Qiao Jie uncovered his train in a rice warehouse and began to accept the system’s offer to restore his Train Conductor status.
• The Raven Demon attacked Qiao Jie, grabbed him in its talons, and tormented him as he tried to summon his remaining mechanical creations.
• Ye Qiyan and a woman entered the warehouse, and Qiao Jie’s mind collapsed at the sight of Ye Qiyan.

Ye Qiyan killed Qiao Jie, only to discover that the God of Machine Blood had possessed him. After learning that destroying the god’s consciousness would kill it, Ye Qiyan used the Blasphemy Card to anchor the god to Qiao Jie and banish it.

• Ye Qiyan completed the Ascension of his Sharpness-Enchanted Dagger, transforming it into the Eternal Cutter, then had Red Tears kill Qiao Jie’s summoned mechanical men.
• Ye Qiyan shot Qiao Jie after rejecting his claims that the Train Survival World offered no hope.
• The God of Machine Blood emerged through Qiao Jie’s corpse and attacked, but Red Tears repeatedly cut its manifested body apart.
• Ye Qiyan used Bewitchment to learn that destroying the god’s consciousness would kill it, then angered it with his title and summoned the Blasphemy Card.
• Ye Qiyan anchored the God of Machine Blood’s consciousness to Qiao Jie and banished it.

Ye Qiyan’s Anchor banished the God of Machine Blood to the Wasteland, where the Train System erased it and credited Ye Qiyan with the fastest godslaying. He claimed the god’s train and inspected his Ascended dagger before setting out to collect payment from the survivors.

• The Train System judged the God of Machine Blood for entering the Wasteland and calling itself a god, then erased it despite outside interference.
• Ye Qiyan received a top-level Module Card and the permanent title Blasphemer of the Gods for breaking the godslaying record.
• Ye Qiyan took Qiao Jie’s Water Storage and Livestock Carriage, added it to his train, and recycled the remaining train parts.
• Ye Qiyan tested his Ascended Eternal Cutter and found its cutting power could nearly damage the Astral Sacred Crest.
• Ye Qiyan saved the Module Card for later Ascension and went out into the rain to collect payment from the others.

Ye Qiyan collected payment from Zhao An and the other Train Conductors after saving them, then found Rice City's Infinite Rice Bag. He prepared to Ascend a top-tier Module card.

• Zhao An woke after a burst of radiance restored some of his sanity, and the others told him that a powerful senior Train Conductor had saved them and demanded repayment.
• Ye Qiyan returned to the trains, collected all the Train Coins and items the ten survivors could offer, and ignored Zhao An's offer to help him in the future.
• After the rain subsided, Zhao An and the others left Ten Warehouse Rice City, and Ye Qiyan waited on his train roof for WALL-E to return.
• WALL-E brought Ye Qiyan the Rice City's Infinite Rice Bag, which could produce rice by consuming stamina, life, or flesh and blood.
• Ye Qiyan decided to keep the bag for now and prepared to Ascend a top-tier Module card.

Ye Qiyan obtained the Big Spending Discount Module and upgraded his seventh carriage into an automated water-supply carriage before leaving the station with 202 Train Coins. Back in the Endless Wasteland, he learned that gray fog was the day’s weather and saw the Teru Teru Bozu turn gray and eerie.

• Ye Qiyan used Ascension on the Train Conductor Top-Tier Module Card and obtained the Big Spending Discount Module, which made items requiring Train Coins cost nothing.
• Ye Qiyan summoned the Hunt Mecha-Dragon and freely switched its forms using the new Module.
• Ye Qiyan used Ascension on his seventh carriage, transforming it into a Clean · Automated Water Supply Carriage, then installed central air conditioning.
• Ye Qiyan tallied his gains, including 202 Train Coins, and concluded that his seventeen-hour stop duration was close to the twenty-four hours needed to reach a level-eight station.
• Ye Qiyan pressed the departure button and returned to the Endless Wasteland, where the broadcast announced gray fog and his Teru Teru Bozu had turned gray and eerie.

Ye Qiyan endured the Gray Fog Trial, realized he was trapped in a dream, and woke with his memories intact despite the system’s attempt to erase them. He received a juvenile Dream Eater and was left preparing for his train’s next Ascension.

• Gray fog enveloped Ye Qiyan’s train, and a winged eye approached as the Dream Eater’s Dreamlike Crystal flew into his hand.
• Ye Qiyan recognized that he was dreaming when his Anchor failed to respond, then used the Illusory Crystal to wake himself.
• The system announced that Ye Qiyan had completed the Gray Fog Trial but could not erase his memories, so it issued him a mission and rewarded him with 30 Train Coins.
• The system explained that the trial tested Train Conductors’ mental resolve and that Ye Qiyan had entered the dream as soon as he returned to the Wasteland.
• The Dream Eater’s Dreamlike Crystal cracked and released a juvenile Dream Eater, which nestled against Ye Qiyan’s chest.
• Ye Qiyan learned that the gray fog chose to conduct the trial and that gods could not interfere, then rested in anticipation of his train’s next Ascension.

Ye Qiyan raised his train to level 8 and spent nearly all his Train Coins on upgrade options, including a Mechanical Life Core, a blueprint, and a new train armament. Meanwhile, Shaya learned that a god had entered the Wasteland and been killed by a Train Conductor, and she reacted with envy and murderous zeal.

• Ye Qiyan used 230 Train Coins to Ascend his train to level 8, raising its speed to 160 and revealing Wuce Crystal as a required material for the next upgrade.
• Ye Qiyan bought two hours of stopping time and a Limit · Mechanical Life Core, which he planned to Ascend before giving to the Security Sentry.
• Ye Qiyan bought the GT-EX Mental Model blueprint and Train Armament · Airspace Purge, leaving himself with 21 Train Coins.
• An Angel delivered Shaya a message that a god had entered the Wasteland and fallen, possibly killed by a Train Conductor.
• Shaya expressed envy and murderous intent while Tina observed that Shaya had gone mad again.

Ye Qiyan chose Telt Island, a peaceful harvest station, and spent the stop gathering water, fishing, and stocking his train with resources and animals. He relaxed by the lake as his stamina and mental energy recovered, leaving him ready to use Ascension.

• Ye Qiyan chose the level-free Telt Island harvest station over the level 7 Ice River Valley puzzle station.
• Shangguan Yingxue told Ye Qiyan she had left her Guild and sold him a level 4 Firearm Modification Component for 6 Train Coins.
• Ye Qiyan arrived at Telt Island, where the station notice declared there was no danger, and sent WALL-E out to explore.
• Ye Qiyan bought pipes and a pump, then drew lake water through the Water Purifier into the Water Storage Carriage.
• Ye Qiyan fished and had Red Tears and the Raven Demon scout the island; Red Tears killed a wild chicken, while Beedrill gathered plants and the Raven Demon brought smaller chickens to the Livestock Carriage.
• Ye Qiyan relaxed in the sun as his stamina and mental energy recovered enough for him to use Ascension.

Ye Qiyan used the Mecha · Transcendence Star to transform the Security Sentry into a powerful mechanical lifeform and named it Eve. Eve stayed by his side as his new guard, while Ye Qiyan considered equipping it with Smart Chips.

• Ye Qiyan spent 300 stamina and spirit to ascend the Mechanical Life Core into the Mecha · Transcendence Star.
• Ye Qiyan placed the Transcendence Star on the Security Sentry, triggering a three-hour transformation that rebuilt it as a mechanical lifeform.
• Ye Qiyan inspected Transcendence · Sentinel’s abilities, including its thirty-six weapon slots, expanding detection range, healing slot, and Overlimit and Transcendence Star modes.
• Ye Qiyan named the transformed Security Sentry Eve, and Eve stayed beside him as his guard.
• Ye Qiyan noted that Eve still needed Smart Chips.

Ye Qiyan followed WALL-E beneath Telt Island’s lake to find the treasure it had discovered. He reached a hidden cavern and found a gigantic pearl mussel with the treasure inside its shell.

• Ye Qiyan rested on Telt Island while Eve butchered a yak and the train’s animals and water supplies were put to use.
• WALL-E returned from the lake without its treasure and led Ye Qiyan toward the underwater site where it had found it.
• Ye Qiyan used the Astral Sacred Crest to make an air pocket as he, Eve, and WALL-E walked along the lakebed.
• The group passed into an underground cavern filled with enormous pearls and pearl mussels.
• WALL-E led them to a six-story pearl mussel and pointed to the gap in its shell where the treasure lay.

Ye Qiyan found a Blasphemy Card fragment inside the Giant Clam at the Twentieth Station and joined it with another fragment, bringing his card to two of three pieces. Zhuxing Tu divined that someone had obtained two new fragments, but the backlash left her unconscious before she could learn where that person was.

• Ye Qiyan had Eve and WALL-E try to pull a hidden object from the Giant Clam, then climbed inside and identified it as a fragment of a Blasphemy Card.
• Ye Qiyan easily took the fragment and split the Giant Clam and the lake above it with Moonshadow when the clam tried to trap him.
• Ye Qiyan joined the new fragment with another one and saw that his Blasphemy Card was two-thirds complete.
• Zhuxing Tu heard that new fragments had appeared and suspected Ye Qiyan might already have completed a Blasphemy Card.
• Zhuxing Tu forced the Astrology practitioner to divine whether Ye Qiyan had obtained the fragments, then asked where the unknown holder was.
• Zhuxing Tu’s spirit stat fell to one from the divination backlash, and she passed out as the Astrology practitioner covered her in a dark golden glow.

Ye Qiyan negotiated with Qin Qiang to help his guild escape the City of Eternal Night after its leader was killed and the city’s rulers began forcing humans to become vampires. Qin Qiang agreed to pay seventy Train Coins for help obtaining a Guild Entry Invitation Card for Solo City, though Ye Qiyan had no clear plan for securing one.

• Ye Qiyan left Telt Island at the end of its stopover, carrying the supplies he had gathered and a fragment of a Blasphemy Card.
• Qin Qiang contacted Ye Qiyan and asked him to move up the favor he had promised.
• Qin Qiang explained that the City of Eternal Night’s rulers had demanded resources and Vampire Transformation from human Train Conductors, then sent vampire guards to arrest people during the resulting riots.
• Qin Qiang told Ye Qiyan that his guild leader had been killed and asked for help relocating the remaining guild members.
• Ye Qiyan negotiated a payment of seventy Train Coins, and Qin Qiang agreed in exchange for help obtaining a Guild Entry Invitation Card for Solo City.
• Ye Qiyan agreed to try, then wondered whether the Junior Grand Inquisitor could help him find the invitation card.

Zhao Xi faced a challenge to her authority in Solo City’s council, then returned to her train and spoke with Ye Qiyan about the Guild Invitation Card and the city’s unrest. She invited Ye Qiyan to Solo City for help and warned him about the Imperial Sequence Organization and its wanted members.

• A Supervisory Court member accused Zhao Xi of failing to protect Solo City’s Order Card, and she used her authority to pardon herself and sentence him to exile.
• An assassin shot the young man before Simak dismissed responsibility, and Zhao Xi left the council while the City Lord quietly said that events were about to begin.
• Back on her train, Zhao Xi dismissed her subordinates and reflected on Solo City’s unrest and her inability to leave her post.
• Ye Qiyan asked Zhao Xi about a Guild Invitation Card, and she explained that it could let a Guild move cities and offered to provide one if he brought his Hunt Mecha-Dragon to Solo City.
• Zhao Xi warned Ye Qiyan that Solo City had lost its Order Card and explained Card Sequences, the Imperial Sequence Organization, and the danger posed by its wanted members.

Ye Qiyan returned to Solo City, where he learned that a terrorist raid had left the city unsettled and trains stolen. Zhao Xi gave him a Guild Invitation Card and asked him to bomb the Endless Tower, headquarters of the High Tower Council and Solo City Inspectorate.

• Ye Qiyan entered Solo City through its main gate after the Fork in Destiny offered the Endless Tower as an alternative entry point.
• A young woman at the Currency Exchange told Ye Qiyan that a terrorist group had angered a powerful figure, who destroyed city blocks, and that people had later breached the Train Exchange and stolen trains.
• Ye Qiyan met Zhao Xi at a café, where she bought a secret-edition teddy bear before handing him a Guild Invitation Card.
• Zhao Xi asked Ye Qiyan to take his Hunt Mecha-Dragon to the Endless Tower, activate transcendence, and bomb it once.
• Zhao Xi told Ye Qiyan that the Endless Tower housed the High Tower Council and the Solo City Inspectorate's headquarters.

Zhao Xi recruited Ye Qiyan to help destroy a tower during the City of Eternal Night’s planned attack on Solo City, then took him shopping for a limited-edition plush toy. Their outing ended with Solo City Inspectors showing hostility toward the Judgment Court, leaving Ye Qiyan doubtful that the next day would go as smoothly as Zhao Xi expected.

• Zhao Xi told Ye Qiyan that the City of Eternal Night planned to attack Solo City and asked him to destroy an unoccupied tower when she gave the signal, offering him 120 Train Coins.
• Ye Qiyan agreed to help, and Zhao Xi told him he could collect a Judgment Enforcer’s standard kit and salary from the Judgment Court.
• Zhao Xi took Ye Qiyan to buy a limited-edition pirate rabbit plush toy, reimbursing him with ten Train Coins after he paid five.
• Solo City Inspectors stopped the pair for an identity check, but Ye Qiyan showed his Judgment Court badge and made them leave.
• Ye Qiyan noticed the Inspectors’ resentment toward the Judgment Court and suspected the coming day would not go as Zhao Xi hoped.

Zhao Xi took Ye Qiyan shopping and then brought him to the Judgment Court on Solo City's fourth level to collect his pay. As gossip spread through the Court about the pair, Ye Qiyan remained uncertain about the strange eyes he had seen in the darkness between the city's levels.

• Zhao Xi took Ye Qiyan shopping, invited him to collect his pay, and explained that the Court sometimes paid its members in equipment instead of Train Coins.
• Ye Qiyan and Zhao Xi rode the Central Elevator to the fourth level, where Ye Qiyan glimpsed several nonhuman eyes watching him from the darkness between levels.
• Zhao Xi changed into her Chief Inquisitor uniform, and Ye Qiyan used his Simulated Outfit Module to copy the Court's uniform.
• Several Judgment Court members saw Zhao Xi arrive with Ye Qiyan, and rumors about the tall man spread through the Court.
• Zhao Xi proudly showed Ye Qiyan the Judgment Court, a vast courtyard floating above the other buildings on Solo City's highest level.