Chapter Summaries

Luo Fan brought Ai Si to Master Bukong, who agreed to resurrect him despite the sacrifice costing Bukong his life. Ai Si returned to life in a flesh-and-blood body, and Luo Fan then asked what sequence he now had.

• Luo Fan introduced himself to the Maitreya Convoy and asked Master Bukong to resurrect Ai Si.
• Master Bukong agreed, while Zhang Jie warned that the resurrection would cost Bukong his life.
• Bukong explained that he had long accepted this fate and told Zhang Jie to care for the Maitreya Convoy after his death.
• Bukong used golden Buddhist light to transform Ai Si's Puppet Doll body into living flesh and blood, then vanished, leaving a sarira that merged into Ai Si.
• The Maitreya Convoy and Hope Convoy mourned and thanked Bukong as Ai Si bowed in gratitude.
• Luo Fan asked Ai Si what sequence he had after being resurrected.

Ai Si returned to life as a Lv33 Third-Tier Sequence User after absorbing Master Bukong’s relic, and the Hope Convoy celebrated his resurrection. The chapter ended with Luo Fan asking Ai Si about the four skills he had gained at his new level.

• Ai Si discovered that he had reached Lv33 in the explosive flame mage sequence, and Zhang Jie said Master Bukong had been Lv34 in the saint monk sequence.
• Zhang Jie declined Luo Fan’s offer of supplies, exchanged friend contacts with him, and left with the Maitreya Convoy.
• The Hope Convoy traveled for several hours, stopped before nightfall, and held a feast to celebrate Ai Si’s resurrection.
• Han Shanzhong and the others discussed how unexpectedly Master Bukong had sacrificed himself, while Zhao Chunfeng’s divination was recognized as having foretold a smooth resurrection.
• Luo Fan pointed out that Ai Si was now the Hope Convoy’s only Third-Tier Sequence User and asked what his last four skills were.

Ai Si explained the four new skills he had gained after his resurrection, including the rule-type Fire God Descends, and the Hope Convoy celebrated his return and new role as a high-damage mage. After the celebration, Luo Fan received a private message from his wife, the Weird Bride.

• Luo Fan asked Ai Si about his skills, and Ai Si explained that he had mastered seven in total.
• Ai Si described Fire God Descends, which made him immune to fire and let him control other flames, and the convoy realized it was a rule-type divine skill.
• Ai Si introduced Path of Flames, Earth Fire, and Fire Release, and Luo Fan explained how the two movement skills worked well together.
• Luo Fan toasted Ai Si's resurrection as the convoy reflected on having nine sequence users and a fuller range of battlefield roles.
• After the meal, Luo Fan returned to his room and received a private message from the Weird Bride.

Luo Fan set out for Foggy Canyon after the Weird Bride told him the Underground Palace was finished. He rode Black Bird through the night toward the Underground Palace, but a flying Weird attacked him along the way.

• Luo Fan paid Zhao Chunfeng a Second-Order Weird Crystal to divine whether his trip to Foggy Canyon would be safe, and Zhao Chunfeng predicted a few bumps but no serious danger.
• Luo Fan told Zhao Chunfeng that the Weird Bride had rebuilt an Underground Palace and invited him to see it.
• Luo Fan told Ai Si and An Xiaoran he would be away for a few days, and he left An Xiaoran ten cartons of milk to drink one per day.
• Luo Fan chose Black Bird as his mount instead of flying a plane, and Black Bird transformed into an enormous bird and carried him toward Foggy Canyon.
• Luo Fan saw Weird pursuing the convoy below as Black Bird flew more than 500 kilometers toward Foggy Canyon.
• A flying Weird spotted Luo Fan on Black Bird and rapidly charged at him.

Luo Fan used Secret Technique Enchanting to mark a Third-Tier Weird and killed it with a detonation followed by Triple Shot. He collected its Weird Crystal and continued toward the Underground Palace, concluding that the marks’ burst damage exceeded Triple Shot’s.

• Luo Fan enchanted his Pear Blossom Needle Storm and applied all 30 stacks of marks to a Third-Tier Weird while Black Bird fought it in midair.
• Luo Fan detonated the marks and followed with Triple Shot from his +8 Weird Gun, killing the Weird.
• Luo Fan had Black Bird catch the falling corpse and extracted a Third-Tier Weird Crystal before discarding the remains.
• A convoy of Sequence Users witnessed the corpse fall and marveled at Luo Fan riding a third-tier Fierce Beast.
• Luo Fan judged that detonating 30 stacks dealt more damage than Triple Shot and praised Secret Technique Enchanting’s burst power.

Luo Fan visited the Weird Bride's new Underground Palace in Foggy Canyon and saw how she had designed it to suit his preferences. He learned that her many Doppelgängers serving as its staff were part of her cultivation, though she had yet to explain how.

• Black Bird carried Luo Fan 500 kilometers to Foggy Canyon, where a maid led him through an illusion-hidden entrance to the Underground Palace.
• The maid showed Luo Fan the palace's bright, campus-sized interior, which the Weird Bride had furnished with simulated sunlight, lawns, and ponds for his comfort.
• The palace's servants, guards, and maids greeted Luo Fan, and he recognized that they were all the Weird Bride's Doppelgängers.
• Luo Fan reunited with the Weird Bride, who explained that she had sent Xiaohong to wait for him because she wanted to welcome him back.
• Luo Fan asked why the Weird Bride made so many Doppelgängers to serve in different roles, and she replied that doing so was a form of cultivation.

The Weird Bride explained that rule-type Weirds study human speech and behavior to deepen their understanding of their rules, and that killing people can help them see humans’ true nature. Luo Fan wondered whether humans could similarly strengthen rule-based skills, but the Weird Bride did not know; the couple continued talking before retiring to their room.

• The Weird Bride asked Luo Fan what rule-type Weirds had in common, and he realized that they all had human or humanoid forms.
• The Weird Bride explained that rule-type Weirds learned to imitate humans because understanding human behavior helped them master their rules.
• The Weird Bride told Luo Fan that killing people could reveal their true selves and help Weirds understand humans more thoroughly.
• Luo Fan asked whether sequence users could deepen their mastery of rule-based skills, but the Weird Bride said she did not know.
• Luo Fan and the Weird Bride continued talking about what she could discuss, then returned to their room as the Underground Palace grew dark.

After Luo Fan reached Level 30, he learned that his third-tier Demon Hunter advancement required materials from magical creatures, and the Weird Bride offered to gather them for him. She left the Underground Palace to collect the materials while Luo Fan headed back toward the Hope Convoy with Black Bird.

• The Weird Bride invited Luo Fan to the completed Underground Palace, where he stayed with her for seven or eight days.
• Luo Fan absorbed a Fourth-Tier Weird Crystal and raised his Demon Hunter Sequence to Lv30.
• Luo Fan learned that advancing to the third-tier sequence required fangs, sharp claws, a venom sac, and a heart from magical creatures.
• The Weird Bride volunteered to gather the advancement materials, and Luo Fan agreed to let her help.
• The Weird Bride left the Underground Palace at night, while Luo Fan departed on Black Bird and headed toward the Hope Convoy.

Luo Fan encountered Xu Miao'er and her group struggling against a powerful second-tier weird, and Black Bird quickly killed it. He learned the group had gathered through a guild mission, leaving him surprised that guilds existed in the apocalypse.

• Luo Fan spotted Xu Miao'er and several sequence users fighting a bone-spiked skeleton weird from Black Bird's back.
• Luo Fan landed and recognized Xu Miao'er, who remembered him from the earlier weird tide.
• The weird sent its skulls at Luo Fan, but Black Bird crushed the skulls and the weird's main body.
• Xu Miao'er thanked Luo Fan, while the other sequence users recognized him as a celebrated hero.
• A sequence user explained that they had accepted a guild mission to help Xu Miao'er complete her second-tier advancement mission, surprising Luo Fan.

Luo Fan declined an invitation to visit Jiangkou Town, where thousands of people supposedly lived safely, and left Xu Miao'er behind. He then told Master Wen Hao that Ai Si had been resurrected while another Explosive Flame Mage, Xu Miao'er, was still alive, prompting Wen Hao to urgently ask about the resurrection and request a meeting.

• A Sequence User invited Luo Fan to visit Jiangkou Town, a Survivor Base said to shelter thousands, but Luo Fan judged the offer suspicious and prepared to leave.
• Luo Fan offered to take Xu Miao'er somewhere safe, but she said she could not leave Jiangkou Town and claimed her phone was broken.
• Luo Fan departed on Black Bird, and Xu Miao'er retrieved a Second-Order Weird Crystal from the corpse.
• Luo Fan messaged Master Wen Hao that Xu Miao'er shared Ai Si's Explosive Flame Mage Sequence and Explosive Fireball skill; Wen Hao explained that identical Sequences could awaken in new holders after a previous holder died.
• Luo Fan revealed that Ai Si had been resurrected and still had the same Sequence, leaving two Explosive Flame Mages alive.
• Master Wen Hao urgently asked where Xu Miao'er was, requested that Luo Fan bring her and Ai Si to him, and asked how Ai Si had been resurrected, hoping the method could help reveal how General Meng died.

Luo Fan warned Master Wen Hao that Jiangkou Town might be dangerous, and the Aerospace Base decided to investigate it. After returning to the Hope Convoy, Luo Fan asked his Golden Weird Mirror for information about the town.

• Luo Fan told Master Wen Hao that Ai Si’s resurrection had required a saint monk’s self-sacrifice and could not readily be repeated, easing concern about resurrecting General Meng.
• Luo Fan warned Master Wen Hao that thousands of survivors were gathered in Jiangkou Town and that Xu Miao’er had urged him not to visit because something seemed wrong there.
• Master Wen Hao said the Aerospace Base would monitor Jiangkou Town and ordered a guard to have Yao Xingxing investigate it with his imperial astrologer abilities.
• Luo Fan returned to the Hope Convoy, went to his room, and asked his Golden Weird Mirror for information about Jiangkou Town.

Luo Fan learned that the Golden Weird Mirror charged heavily for information about Jiangkou Town, then received Master Wen Hao’s request to investigate the town with Jiang Shengnan. Before deciding, Luo Fan asked Zhao Chunfeng to divine the trip, and the result was good fortune amid danger, though Zhao Chunfeng could not explain how that outcome would come about.

• Luo Fan asked the Golden Weird Mirror whether a powerful Weird occupied Jiangkou Town, but refused to spend a Fourth-Tier Weird Crystal for the answer.
• After resting with the Hope Convoy, Luo Fan received a message from Master Wen Hao saying the town’s thousands of survivors seemed trapped and inviting him to go with Jiang Shengnan for three Weird Crystals.
• Luo Fan asked Zhao Chunfeng to divine whether the trip would bring good fortune or bad.
• Zhao Chunfeng interpreted the result as good fortune amid danger but said the divination showed no steps explaining how the result would occur.

Luo Fan questioned Zhao Chunfeng's divination and asked Lin Feifei to conceal her Soul Manipulation Art so no one could summon General Meng's soul and expose him. Meanwhile, the Weird Bride defeated a mountain-sized elephant and collected its tusk as the first material for Luo Fan's advancement.

• Zhao Chunfeng explained that Divination only worked if he trusted its reading completely, and Luo Fan accepted that its prediction of good fortune amid danger might be reliable.
• Luo Fan asked Lin Feifei to remove her Soul Manipulation Art advertisement, refuse requests to summon dead souls, and keep her ability secret; she agreed.
• The Weird Bride used her aging rule to destroy an elephant protected by earth and rock, then cut off and shrank one tusk.
• The Weird Bride celebrated collecting the first advancement material, Tusk, and set out to find Sharp Claw.

Master Wen Hao arrived at the Hope Convoy seeking Ai Si, while Luo Fan prepared to leave with Jiang Shengnan for Jiangkou Town. The chapter ended as Luo Fan asked Jiang Shengnan what she knew about the town, still uneasy despite Zhao Chunfeng’s divination.

• Master Wen Hao asked to meet Ai Si, who introduced himself arrogantly until Zhao Chunfeng made him apologize.
• Luo Fan exchanged a few words with Li Yan and Jiang Shengnan, then hid the Golden Weird Mirror and messaged Lin Feifei and Ai Si before leaving.
• Luo Fan and Jiang Shengnan rode Black Bird toward Jiangkou Town and discussed their mounts and sequence abilities.
• Luo Fan asked Jiang Shengnan whether she had any leads on Jiangkou Town, worried about what awaited them there.

Luo Fan and Jiang Shengnan compared what little they knew about their mission to Jiangkou Town and discussed the missing Golden Weird Mirror. Jiang Shengnan revealed that the Aerospace Base had frozen General Meng’s body after learning Ai Si had been resurrected, hoping to revive him and uncover how he died.

• Jiang Shengnan asked Luo Fan about Zhao Chunfeng’s divination, and Luo Fan said it predicted good fortune amid danger but seemed unusual.
• Jiang Shengnan explained that Yao Xingxing’s star reading had identified her and Luo Fan as the only people suited to investigate Jiangkou Town, though the base had no other leads.
• Luo Fan considered using the Golden Weird Mirror to learn about Jiangkou Town but decided its cost was too high, then asked Jiang Shengnan about the artifact.
• Jiang Shengnan said the Golden Weird Mirror could answer questions about past events but had gone missing after General Meng was killed in the Weird Domain.
• Jiang Shengnan said the Aerospace Base had no explanation for General Meng’s death, but Professor Wen had told her Ai Si had returned to life, so the base had frozen General Meng’s body in hopes of resurrecting him.

Luo Fan and Jiang Shengnan arrived at Jiangkou Town and found an unusually peaceful settlement with farms, shops, and people living without fear of Weird or Fierce Beasts. When they refused to register as residents, guards surrounded them and revealed that the town sealed the powers and equipment of unregistered visitors.

• Luo Fan and Jiang Shengnan landed outside Jiangkou Town and were astonished to see busy streets, cultivated fields, and survivors returning with Fierce Beast corpses.
• A Sequence User welcomed them and claimed Jiangkou Town was a safe haven, then led them inside at Jiang Shengnan’s suggestion.
• Luo Fan and Jiang Shengnan explored the town’s shops, and Jiang Shengnan compared it to a beginner village or safe zone in an online game.
• The Sequence User brought them to a former government office and said newcomers had to register before becoming residents, but Luo Fan refused.
• Guards surrounded Luo Fan and Jiang Shengnan, declared them vagrants, and revealed that the town had sealed their powers, Uncanny Artifacts, and phones before moving to seize them.

Luo Fan and Jiang Shengnan registered as residents of Jiangkou Town after learning about its protections and rewards. Jiang Shengnan’s registration revealed that she was a Lv35 third-tier Sequence User, prompting the town’s officials to report her to their lord.

• Luo Fan questioned the guards about the benefits of registering, and the guide explained that residents could use their abilities, receive rooms, and earn the right to open a shop by recruiting five people.
• Jiang Shengnan compared the recruitment system to a pyramid scheme, but Luo Fan agreed with the guard captain that the Apocalypse changed how such arrangements should be judged.
• Jiang Shengnan listed her real Sequence information on her application, while Luo Fan claimed he was not a Sequence User.
• A clerk verified Jiang Shengnan as a Lv35 third-tier Sequence User, and her registration restored her sealed power.
• Luo Fan secretly used beast blood for his registration, while their guide received a generous reward for bringing Jiang Shengnan to town.
• The guard captain told Jiang Shengnan that the lord had been informed and would probably meet her personally.

Luo Fan and Jiang Shengnan learned that Jiangkou Town’s residents could either pay a regular crystal levy or join the town guard, and they chose the latter as the better way to investigate the settlement. They suspected the town’s mysterious Master was a Rule-Type Weird, but Luo Fan believed she might be cultivating the residents to study human nature rather than simply raising them as prey.

• Jiang Shengnan returned from meeting the Master and told Luo Fan she could pay ten Second-Order Weird Crystals every ten days or join the town guard for a monthly salary.
• Luo Fan advised Jiang Shengnan to join the town guard because residents could not leave Jiangkou Town for more than twenty-four hours and the position would help them investigate the town.
• Jiang Shengnan and Luo Fan suspected the unseen Master was a Rule-Type Weird because she could seal the powers of everyone entering town and protect its residents.
• Jiang Shengnan wondered whether the Master was keeping humans as livestock, while Luo Fan proposed that she was cultivating them to study human nature.

Luo Fan told Jiang Shengnan that rule-type weird hunted humans to study their reactions and deepen their mastery of rules, and he outlined three levels of rule power. He left her with a warning that some beings in the apocalypse were unknowable and unthinkable.

• Luo Fan explained that the Weird Bride had used her doppelgängers to study humans and improve her grasp of rules, and he said he had verified this information.
• Jiang Shengnan connected Luo Fan’s explanation to the rule-type weird sheltering humans in Jiangkou Town and asked how greater mastery of rules changed their abilities.
• Luo Fan described rule manipulation, rule mastery, and rule sanction, explaining that rule masters could wield rule power directly and were beyond his ability to defeat.
• Jiang Shengnan asked what rule sanction involved, but Luo Fan said he only knew that the level existed.
• Luo Fan warned Jiang Shengnan that the apocalypse contained unknowable, unthinkable beings, leaving her confused.

Luo Fan told Jiang Shengnan about conceptual-level Weird and revealed that the Hope Convoy had encountered one, though no one remembered what happened. The two discussed whether Jiangkou Town’s safe haven was worth preserving, and Luo Fan suspected its Weird had reached or neared rule mastery.

• Luo Fan explained that some conceptual-level Weird could sense when people specifically thought or spoke about them, and said the Hope Convoy had once encountered one.
• Jiang Shengnan learned that the convoy remembered meeting the Weird but could recall neither its appearance nor its actions.
• Luo Fan redirected the conversation to Jiangkou Town and said they needed to understand its Weird and protect the residents.
• Jiang Shengnan suggested the town’s safe haven might benefit its residents, but Luo Fan warned that they could not trust the Weird to maintain it forever.
• Luo Fan said he had no plan yet and suspected Jiangkou Town’s Weird had reached rule mastery or was close to breaking through.