Chapter Summaries

Luo Fan invited the Weird Bride to live with him in the Hope Convoy, and she agreed despite seeming hesitant. After Zhao Chunfeng described a future glimpse in which she was absent during a fight with a Third-Tier Weird, the convoy set out to help An Xiaoran advance to the second-tier Sequence.

• The Weird Bride told Luo Fan that her Vision Sealing power had stopped working on him in the Underground Palace, and they considered whether the same connection had let her walk in sunlight.
• Luo Fan asked the Weird Bride to stay in the Hope Convoy instead of returning with her to the Underground Palace, and she reluctantly agreed.
• Luo Fan told Zhao Chunfeng and the others that he had married the Weird Bride and wanted her to join the convoy; they welcomed her as a powerful ally.
• Niu Dagang said Zhao Chunfeng's Peering skill had predicted that the Weird Bride would not be with the convoy, but Luo Fan argued that she might simply be away at the time.
• Luo Fan asked An Xiaoran to lead the convoy toward the target she needed to hunt to advance to the second-tier Sequence, and the group set out.

Rose sought Master Bukong’s help to dispel the Weird Bride’s aging curse, but his blessing could barely affect it, leaving Rose with only days to live. Meanwhile, Luo Fan’s group entered a mist-filled canyon with An Xiaoran and the Weird Bride, whose sudden unease left them facing an unknown danger ahead.

• Rose reached Master Bukong, who used his Buddhist blessing on her but said dispelling the curse could take six months to a year.
• Rose left to seek a stronger Sequence User or an Uncanny Artifact, knowing the curse might kill her within days.
• The Hope Convoy traveled safely for two days under the Weird Bride’s protection and arrived at a misty canyon.
• Luo Fan and the Sequence Users entered the canyon with An Xiaoran and the Weird Bride, while Zhao Chunfeng, Murong Xuan, and Ximen Chuixue stayed behind.
• The Weird Bride sensed something ahead and frowned, making Luo Fan worry that trouble awaited them.

Luo Fan and his companions entered a misty canyon where the Weird Bride revealed an Evil Blood Banyan King Tree that might bear powerful, individually changing fruit. As they searched for An Xiaoran’s advancement target, they faced a Tree Demon horde, which the Weird Bride quickly crushed.

• The Weird Bride told Luo Fan that an Evil Blood Banyan King Tree grew in the canyon and that its fruit could benefit even high-tier Weird.
• An Xiaoran sensed her target deeper in the canyon, and Luo Fan led the group toward it.
• A Tree Demon emerged from the mist, and Luo Fan, Xiao Hei, and Han Shanzhong attacked and defeated it.
• More than a dozen Tree Demons appeared, and the Weird Bride crushed them into fragments with a single gesture.

Luo Fan and the Weird Bride fought their way through Foggy Canyon, where she easily destroyed dozens of Tree Demons. After she killed a powerful third-tier Tree Demon, An Xiaoran completed her advancement quest and reached Lv21 in the Holy Light Angel Sequence.

• The Weird Bride wiped out more than a dozen Tree Demons, and Luo Fan praised her before leading the group farther into Foggy Canyon.
• The Weird Bride pulverized every Treant in their path as Luo Fan and she worked together, while An Xiaoran sensed that her quest target lay deeper in the canyon.
• After traveling about two kilometers, the group encountered a third-tier Tree Demon, which the Weird Bride flattened with a single attack.
• An Xiaoran confirmed that her advancement quest was complete and advanced to Lv21, becoming the Hope Convoy's fourth second-tier Sequence member.
• Luo Fan reassured Niu Dagang about his progress, promised to help Lin Feifei with her future advancement quest, and asked An Xiaoran about her newly awakened skill.

An Xiaoran revealed her Angel Form after awakening a new skill, while Rose completed her advancement by sacrificing Sequence Users but failed to remove the Weird Bride’s Aging Curse. The story left Rose despairing over her inability to save herself.

• An Xiaoran transformed into an angel, gained the ability to fly, and explained how Angel Form turned her healing and defensive skills into attacks against enemies.
• Luo Fan and the others continued deeper into Foggy Canyon as a ghostlike Second-Tier Weird hunted Sequence Users fleeing from a cave.
• Rose blocked the cave exit with a Missile, trapping the last two fleeing Sequence Users inside to be killed by the ghost Weird.
• Rose’s Sequence Level rose to Lv21 after she completed the requirement to lure people into a Weird Nest and have Weirds kill them.
• Rose awakened Substitute Puppet and tried to transfer her Aging Curse to a rag doll, but the skill failed and left her in despair.

Luo Fan and his companions reached the deepest part of Foggy Canyon, where the Weird Bride killed a Rule-Type Weird with a single word. She revealed that rules had different ranks, leaving Luo Fan eager to learn more about how they were classified.

• Luo Fan and his companions found the Evil Blood Banyan King Tree and the Rule-Type Weird sitting beneath it.
• The Weird Bride asked the Weird about the tree, and he recognized her as “Your Highness” and knelt before her.
• The Weird Bride attacked after the Weird accused her of associating with humans, and the Weird trapped everyone on a chessboard with his Rule Power.
• The Weird Bride said “Die!” and aged the Rule-Type Weird into bones and ash, then gave his Weird Crystal to Luo Fan.
• The Weird Bride explained that her rules were of a higher rank, and Luo Fan asked her to explain the rule ranks.

The Weird Bride explained the three levels of rule control to Luo Fan and the others, revealing that rule sanction could nullify other people’s rules. After Luo Fan stopped her from disclosing her weakness, the Weird Bride proposed staying behind to wait for the Evil Blood Banyan King Tree’s fruits to ripen, and Luo Fan suspected she was hiding something.

• The Weird Bride explained that most rule-type weirds used rule manipulation, while she had rule mastery and could directly apply rules to enemies without being affected herself.
• Niu Dagang, Han Shanzhong, and Lin Feifei feared that rule mastery left them little chance of survival, but the Weird Bride began to mention a possible way to counter it.
• Luo Fan stopped the Weird Bride from revealing her weakness and told her not to share it, even with people they trusted.
• The Weird Bride revealed that rule sanction could completely nullify other people’s rules, though she knew little else about it.
• The Weird Bride said the Evil Blood Banyan King Tree’s fruits would ripen in about a month and offered to stay behind until then; Luo Fan asked if she was hiding something.

Luo Fan left Foggy Canyon with the convoy after the Weird Bride stayed behind to guard an Evil Blood Banyan King Tree until its fruit ripened. As the convoy traveled, her crow Doppelgänger revealed how to counter Rule Mastery and let slip that the Weird Bride had stayed because remaining with the convoy would bring consequences they could not bear.

• The Weird Bride chose to remain in Foggy Canyon for about a month and sent a crow Doppelgänger with Luo Fan so she could track him.
• Luo Fan told Zhao Chunfeng that An Xiaoran had advanced to a Second Tier Sequence and that the Weird Bride was guarding the tree.
• The crow explained that each Doppelgänger embodied different aspects of the Weird Bride and that rules could counter other rules through greater strength and mastery.
• The crow said the Weird Bride had shared this knowledge because she wanted Luo Fan to be prepared for a Weird with Rule Mastery.
• Luo Fan tricked the crow into admitting that the Weird Bride had stayed behind because the convoy could not bear the consequences if she remained with it, and the crow agreed to explain further.

Luo Fan learned that the Weird Bride’s marriage to him was deliberate and that discovering certain truths could draw the attention of a dangerous power. As the Hope Convoy continued safely without needing Luo Fan to fight, Rose died alone beside a lake after the Aging Curse rapidly consumed her lifespan.

• The crow told Luo Fan that the Weird Bride had taken him as a live-in husband for a reason and warned that learning certain truths would immediately draw attention.
• Luo Fan connected the crow’s warning with the Weird Bride’s reluctance to travel with the convoy and the Evil Blood Banyan King Tree’s behavior, then stopped himself from investigating further.
• Over the next three days, Lin Feifei’s corpses and the convoy’s powerful Sequence Users dealt with threats while Luo Fan had no chance to act; the other survivors appreciated the convoy’s safety and fair treatment.
• Rose recalled her failed attempts to remove the Aging Curse and wondered whether betraying Ai Si had left her alone and dying.
• Rose saw An Xiaoran in her final moments, reached toward her, and died beside the lake.

Zhao Chunfeng visited Luo Fan during dinner and asked to buy the Second Tier Long-Range Sniping Bow, saying he had advanced to Level 16 and awakened a skill that let him use it. Luo Fan refused to sell his Weird Gun and wondered what Zhao Chunfeng's new skill was.

• The Hope Convoy camped near a town and planned to enter it after daybreak to gather fuel.
• Niu Dagang rented part of his bus as storage space for the ordinary survivors' supplies.
• Zhao Chunfeng arrived at Luo Fan's RV with beer and joined him for dinner.
• Zhao Chunfeng asked to buy Luo Fan's Long-Range Sniping Bow and revealed that he had reached Level 16 and awakened a new skill.
• Luo Fan refused to sell his Weird Gun and questioned what skill Zhao Chunfeng had awakened.

Zhao Chunfeng explained his new Fate Strike skill, and Luo Fan sold him a long-range bow after bargaining. Luo Fan raised his Sequence Level to Demon Hunter Lv22, then discovered that the Doomsday Phone had added a new app.

• Zhao Chunfeng explained that Fate Strike let him predict the ideal time, place, and direction to hit a target.
• Luo Fan and Zhao Chunfeng bargained over the Long-Range Sniping Bow and settled on four Second-Order Weird Crystals.
• Luo Fan and An Xiaoran absorbed Weird Crystals, and Luo Fan advanced to Demon Hunter Lv22.
• Luo Fan received a check-in notification showing 9,500 yuan and a balance of 56,724 yuan.
• The Doomsday Phone announced an update with a new app alongside the Sequence User Forum.

A new map feature on the Doomsday Phone let users share their locations, and Luo Fan used it to discover that Lian Ziqiong was about 160 kilometers away. He agreed to help her assassinate a Swift Wind Wolf King for her second-tier advancement mission, but a crow caught him chatting with her.

• The Doomsday Phone added a map that allowed consenting friends to share their locations, drawing praise on the Sequence User Forum.
• Lian Ziqiong contacted Luo Fan, shared her location, and asked him to help with her second-tier advancement mission.
• Lian Ziqiong explained that she had to assassinate a Swift Wind Wolf King without alerting its pack and offered three Second-Order Weird Crystals as payment.
• Luo Fan agreed to meet Lian Ziqiong in Xiao Jiang Town the next day, where his convoy would be gathering supplies.
• A crow appeared behind Luo Fan and remarked that he seemed to be on good terms with Lian Ziqiong.

Luo Fan reassured the crow about his conversation with Lian Ziqiong, while the Weird Bride traveled to Shennongjia to ask the Willow Immortal Elder to make an artifact that could summon her. The chapter ended with the Weird Bride agreeing to provide even a fragment of her own Weird Crystal for the artifact.

• Luo Fan showed the crow his chat with Lian Ziqiong and pointed out that he had told her he was married.
• The crow read Luo Fan's description of his wife and was pleased by his praise.
• The Weird Bride arrived in the depths of Shennongjia, where the Weird bowed or prostrated themselves before her.
• The Weird Bride asked the Willow Immortal Elder to embed a summoning contract in her Red Veil so someone could summon her directly.
• The Willow Immortal Elder requested three high-tier Weird Crystals, one rule-type Weird Crystal, and a fragment of the Weird Bride's own Weird Crystal.
• The Weird Bride said she would gather the materials and bring them within ten days, leaving the Willow Immortal Elder astonished.

The Hope Convoy entered Xiao Jiang Town to gather supplies, with Luo Fan using his mental scan to locate goods and threats. After he spotted an acquaintance in another convoy and suggested they meet, the Nightmare Nekomata and Money Rat reacted urgently, and Luo Fan rushed back to the RV, where he saw something alarming.

• Zhao Chunfeng divined that the Hope Convoy would face no danger, and the convoy entered Xiao Jiang Town to gather supplies.
• Luo Fan scanned nearby shops for Weird and supplies while the Sequence Users cleared threats and survivors loaded goods into the vehicles.
• An explosion revealed another convoy fighting Fierce Beasts, and Luo Fan identified its leader as Qian Zhonghua, whom he had met at an Exchange Meeting.
• Luo Fan suggested visiting Qian Zhonghua's convoy, but the Nightmare Nekomata and Money Rat suddenly cried out in alarm.
• Luo Fan returned to the RV and was shocked by what he saw inside.

Luo Fan learned that the Weird Bride had lost part of her Weird Crystal, though Crow insisted she was safe. Zhao Chunfeng could not divine her circumstances, leaving Luo Fan to wonder whether the Yi City battlefield had also concealed a Rule Master before he turned his attention back to Qian Zhonghua.

• Luo Fan found Crow gravely weak and worried that something had happened to the Weird Bride.
• Crow told Luo Fan that the Weird Bride had cut part of her own Weird Crystal and was not in danger, but refused to explain why.
• Luo Fan asked Zhao Chunfeng to divine the Weird Bride's fortune, but two overlapping coins prevented him from interpreting the reading.
• Luo Fan connected the failed divination to his earlier reading about the Yi City battlefield and wondered whether a Rule Master had been present.
• Luo Fan sensed that Qian Zhonghua was in critical danger and went to deal with the Fierce Beasts in Xiao Jiang Town.

The Hope Convoy rescued Qian Zhonghua’s convoy from a swarm of spiders, with Lin Feifei, Ximen Chuixue, Han Shanzhong, Niu Dagang, and An Xiaoran turning the battle around. After Lin Feifei reached Lv20, Qian Zhonghua recognized Luo Fan as a hero from the Yi City battlefield, easing his group’s suspicions and earning Luo Fan admiring attention.

• Lin Feifei detonated spider corpses while Ximen Chuixue, Han Shanzhong, and Niu Dagang attacked the swarm, and An Xiaoran strengthened Qian Zhonghua’s struggling Sequence Users with Holy Light Descent.
• The Hope Convoy wiped out the spiders, and Lin Feifei announced that she had reached Lv20.
• Luo Fan approached Qian Zhonghua’s wary convoy and assured them that the Hope Convoy meant no harm.
• Qian Zhonghua recognized Luo Fan from the Yi City battlefield and called him a hero, prompting his convoy to admire Luo Fan and lower their guard.
• Luo Fan told Zhao Chunfeng that the public recognized the truth.

Luo Fan met Qian Zhonghua’s convoy in Xiao Jiang Town, invited them to gather supplies together, and learned that Qian Zhonghua could turn vehicles into Uncanny Artifacts. After both convoys left town, Luo Fan asked Qian Zhonghua to upgrade the Hope Convoy’s vehicles in exchange for supplies.

• Luo Fan praised Qian Zhonghua for fighting on the Yi City battlefield, and Qian Zhonghua accepted Luo Fan’s familiar address of “Uncle Qian.”
• Qian Zhonghua told Luo Fan that his former convoy had died in the final Weird Tide and that he later assembled a new convoy.
• Luo Fan invited Qian Zhonghua’s convoy to gather supplies with the Hope Convoy, and both groups agreed.
• The two convoys collected supplies in Xiao Jiang Town and departed together after two hours.
• Qian Zhonghua regretted that a destroyed gas station had left them without fuel, and Luo Fan learned that Qian Zhonghua was a Lv22 Forging Mentor who could make vehicles into Uncanny Artifacts.
• Luo Fan asked Qian Zhonghua to upgrade the Hope Convoy’s vehicles and offered vegetables, fruit, or fuel as payment.

Luo Fan arranged for Qian Zhonghua to modify his RV, acquiring Void Spirit Jade from Greenedge Base in exchange for a vegetable supply deal. Qian Zhonghua began the ten-hour modification, and Lian Ziqiong arrived and teased Luo Fan about making the vehicle more comfortable for his wife.

• Qian Zhonghua selected materials from Luo Fan's supplies and asked him to obtain at least ten kilograms of Void Spirit Jade for the RV modification.
• Luo Fan asked Jiang Shengnan for help, and Greenedge Base agreed to provide ten kilograms of Void Spirit Jade in exchange for 250 kilograms of vegetables daily for half a month.
• Luo Fan gave Qian Zhonghua the Void Spirit Jade and fifteen Second-Order Weird Crystals for the work.
• Zhao Chunfeng used Divination to confirm that the group could safely stay for the ten hours Qian Zhonghua needed to modify the RV, and Qian Zhonghua began working.
• Lian Ziqiong arrived on a Motorcycle, admired the convoy, and teased Luo Fan about modifying his vehicle now that he had a wife.

Luo Fan and Lian Ziqiong agreed to leave the next day while Qian Zhonghua continued modifying the RV. That night, the Hope Convoy easily killed waves of Weirds, leaving Lian Ziqiong astonished at how effortlessly they earned Weird Crystals.

• Luo Fan arranged to leave the next day after Qian Zhonghua finished modifying his RV, and Lian Ziqiong agreed to wait.
• Qian Zhonghua incorporated materials, Second-Order Weird Crystals, and Void Spirit Jade into the RV while Murong Xuan watched and asked questions.
• Dozens of Weirds approached the Hope Convoy at night, and Lin Feifei's corpses and the Nightmare Nekomata killed them before they could reach the convoy.
• Luo Fan and Lian Ziqiong discussed the Hope Convoy's teamwork, its trusting atmosphere, and Rose's presumed death.
• Ximen Chuixue killed the first second-tier Weird with one strike, and Han Shanzhong and Ximen Chuixue dealt with several more that appeared afterward.
• Lian Ziqiong remarked that earning Weird Crystals seemed incredibly easy for the Hope Convoy.

Luo Fan and Lian Ziqiong joked about the payment for his help with her advancement quest while the Hope Convoy weathered a safe night of attacks. After Qian Zhonghua finished modifying Luo Fan’s RV into an Uncanny Artifact, Luo Fan explored its greatly expanded interior and paid to appraise its stats.

• Lian Ziqiong questioned whether her promised three Second-Order Weird Crystals were enough payment, and Luo Fan teased her about their friendship and her offer to give herself to him.
• The Hope Convoy faced several nighttime attacks from below-Second-Tier Weirds and collected their crystals without danger.
• Qian Zhonghua completed Luo Fan’s RV modifications, increasing its durability and stability and expanding its interior to around ninety or a hundred square meters.
• Luo Fan inspected the spacious RV with Crow, Money Rat, Nightmare Nekomata, and An Xiaoran, who said she wanted to share a room with him.
• Luo Fan paid 5,200 yuan to appraise the modified RV, and the results appeared before him.