Chapter Summaries

Lin Wanqing accepted a unanimous appointment as a Sequence Alliance councilor, believing the role would help her experience human society more directly. Luo Fan discovered that the other councilors had mistaken his objections and abstention for a discreet endorsement, and the Alliance publicly announced Lin Wanqing as Zhang Xinlong’s replacement.

• A councilor told Lin Wanqing she had been unanimously chosen, and she accepted the position to become more involved in human life.
• The councilor cited Lin Wanqing’s level, forces, and relationship with Luo Fan as reasons for her appointment.
• Lin Wanqing thanked Luo Fan for recommending her, but Luo Fan was surprised to learn she had become a councilor.
• Luo Fan questioned the nominating councilor, who insisted the unanimous vote had been fair despite interpreting Luo Fan’s comments as a hint.
• Mr. Mo Mo told Luo Fan that the councilors had read his abstention and objections as an attempt to avoid appearing biased toward Lin Wanqing.
• The Sequence Alliance announced that Zhang Xinlong had been removed for colluding with Eastern Japan and named Lin Wanqing his replacement.

Luo Fan visited Har City to see the Weird Bride and obtain 28 million Faith Points to help conceal Sister Hong's identity. After the Weird Bride grew jealous over Luo Fan's connection to Sister Hong, she understood his reason for asking, then prepared to tell him something important.

• Luo Fan flew to Har City on Black Bird and entered the Weird Bride's dwelling, where she dismissed several Eighth-Tier Weird to greet him alone.
• Luo Fan and the Weird Bride reunited and discussed Sister Hong joining the Sequence Alliance as survivors left Peach Blossom Spring Town.
• The Weird Bride questioned Luo Fan about rumors concerning Sister Hong, admitted she was jealous, and was reassured by his affectionate response.
• Luo Fan explained that he needed 28 million Faith Points to help conceal Sister Hong's identity, and the Weird Bride agreed that the request made sense.
• The Weird Bride grew serious and told Luo Fan that there was something else he should know.

The Weird Bride asked Luo Fan to accompany her to Eastern Japan Island to kill Yamato, a powerful Weird immune to rule power. Luo Fan agreed, gathered the Hope Convoy for the trip, and recruited Minako as their guide, leaving the group preparing to return to her homeland.

• The Weird Bride told Luo Fan that Yamato was an eighth-tier-or-higher Weird who had made Eastern Japan Island a haven for Weirds and was immune to rule power, and asked him to help kill him.
• Luo Fan agreed without asking why she wanted Yamato dead, and the Weird Bride was moved by his trust and affection.
• The Weird Bride decided they would leave that night, and Luo Fan told An Xiaoran, Zhao Chunfeng, Jiang Shengnan, Lin Wanqing, and the others that he would be away.
• Luo Fan invited the Hope Convoy to join the trip after Zhao Chunfeng offered, and the Weird Bride approved.
• Luo Fan traveled to Minako's settlement and asked her to guide them to Eastern Japan Island to hunt a high-tier Weird he called Dahe.
• Minako accepted the request, apologized for questioning him, and said she welcomed the chance to visit her homeland.

Luo Fan and the Hope Convoy set sail from Fuyuan City for Eastern Japan Island, with the Weird Bride and Minako accompanying them. As they traveled into the night, the group heard mysterious singing from the sea.

• Luo Fan admired the moonlit sea with the Weird Bride while Minako remembered how the ocean had been a source of terror for Eastern Japan's survivors.
• Zhao Chunfeng and the others arrived on a repaired boat, and Luo Fan boarded before the group set out for Eastern Japan Island.
• Niu Dagang wondered whether the Weird Bride's presence would leave the convoy with nothing to do, while Zhao Chunfeng and Han Shanzhong discussed whether the island's Weirds would remain without humans to hunt.
• Minako struggled to accept that Luo Fan was married to a powerful female Weird and decided she would never agree to marry him.
• Luo Fan heard distant singing over the ocean, and the convoy tensed as Minako reacted with terror.

Luo Fan and the Hope Convoy faced sea demons whose underwater singing induced powerful illusions, but Mo Yuling’s Space-Time Barrier blocked the sound and bought them time. Since the sea demons would keep pursuing the ship and rarely surfaced, Luo Fan tried to locate them beneath the water with his mental power.

• Tomeko identified the singing as the work of sea demons that hid underwater and attacked in groups with illusion-inducing songs.
• An Xiaoran used Holy Light Dispel to clear Luo Fan’s mind, while Mo Yuling raised a Space-Time Barrier that blocked the sea demons’ singing.
• Luo Fan had everyone gather inside a smaller barrier, allowing Mo Yuling to maintain it for at least half an hour.
• Tomeko warned that sea demons would pursue the ship relentlessly and were so cautious that she had never seen one surface.
• The Weird Bride explained that her rule ability required her to see a target or have it speak of or think of her.
• Luo Fan put on the Far-Sensing Wave Hat and sent his mental power into the seawater to search for the sea demons.

Luo Fan located the Sea Demons beneath the ship and tried to attack them with his Weird Gun, but seawater weakened the bullets and drove the creatures deeper. He then used a phone displaying the Weird Bride’s photograph to let her see and lock onto the Sea Demons.

• Luo Fan used the Far-Sensing Wave Hat to find about ten Sea Demons roughly five hundred meters beneath the sea and two kilometers from the ship.
• Luo Fan fired three Crystal-Energy Bullets at one Sea Demon, wounding it but failing to penetrate its body, and the Sea Demons fled deeper underwater.
• Luo Fan explained that the seawater had weakened his shots and turned to the Weird Bride for another way to reach them.
• Luo Fan photographed the Weird Bride, played music on a Doomsday Phone, sealed it in a waterproof bag, and dropped it into the sea.
• The Sea Demons gathered around the phone and saw the Weird Bride’s image, whose gaze seemed to meet theirs, allowing her to lock onto them.

Luo Fan used the Weird Bride’s photograph to drive the Sea Demons away, and the Hope Convoy discussed its lack of naval combat equipment. The next morning, three suspicious ships approached, and the convoy prepared for a possible confrontation.

• The Weird Bride’s photograph aged several Sea Demons to death, while the survivors fled beyond Luo Fan’s mental detection range.
• Luo Fan returned to the deck, confirmed the danger had passed, and Mo Yuling withdrew the Space-Time Barrier.
• The Hope Convoy discussed developing underwater equipment and improving its ability to fight at sea.
• Minako watched the convoy’s members and wondered how Luo Fan had defeated the Sea Demons, but kept her questions to herself.
• At breakfast, the Weird Bride sensed approaching ships, and the group spotted three large vessels sailing toward them in formation.
• Ximen Chuixue drew his Spirit Dragon Sword slightly as the Hope Convoy prepared to face the approaching fleet.

Luo Fan’s fleet fought the Eastern Japanese Sequence Users after they ignored Minako’s warning and tried to surround the ship. The attackers were swiftly defeated, and their captain was left pinned beneath Han Shanzhong’s foot.

• Minako warned the approaching Eastern Japanese ships to leave, but their burly captain ignored her and ordered his ships to surround Luo Fan’s vessel.
• Luo Fan ordered his companions to attack after Minako’s negotiations failed.
• Lin Feifei’s White Bone Turrets, Ximen Chuixue’s sword qi, and Han Shanzhong’s assault devastated the enemy ships.
• Lin Feifei raised fallen enemies as corpses, while her Skeleton Archers and Luo Fan’s Weird Gun struck down more attackers.
• Niu Dagang leaped aboard an enemy ship, and Zhao Chunfeng used his Steel Coin to strike enemies with lightning and help Han Shanzhong kill one.
• The Eastern Japanese force was routed, and Han Shanzhong pinned its burly captain to the deck as Minako watched.

Luo Fan and the Hope Convoy reached Hokkaido and explored its eerily silent ruins with Minako. The chapter ended when An Xiaoran spotted a group fighting several kilometers ahead.

• Luo Fan ignored the wrecked ships and continued sailing toward Eastern Japan Island.
• The Hope Convoy docked in Hokkaido, ate dinner ashore, and then set out toward Yamato, the Weird.
• Minako reflected on returning to her homeland and compared life in China with the desolation of Eastern Japan Island.
• The group traveled through silent ruins for hours without encountering Weirds or Fierce Beasts.
• An Xiaoran flew ahead and reported that people were fighting about three or four kilometers away.

Luo Fan’s group found Lin Xiaowei and David injured on Eastern Japan Island and rescued them, while Lin Xiaowei learned that Luo Fan and the Weird Bride were married. After hearing how the pair survived by moving between the island and sea, Luo Fan realized the Weirds that attacked them had likely fled because of the Weird Bride.

• Luo Fan’s group reached an abandoned parking lot and found Lin Xiaowei and David wounded beside a rusted truck.
• Lin Xiaowei accused Luo Fan and his companions of serving the Weird Bride, but Luo Fan explained that she was his wife.
• An Xiaoran healed Lin Xiaowei and regrew David’s severed leg.
• Lin Xiaowei told Luo Fan that she and David had survived by switching between the island and the sea, and explained that a Weird’s ability had trapped them until nightfall.
• Lin Xiaowei said the Weirds pursuing them suddenly fled when Luo Fan’s group arrived, and Luo Fan concluded that the Weird Bride had frightened them away.

Luo Fan’s group rescued Lin Xiaowei and David, then let them join the hunt for high-tier Weird on Eastern Japan Island. After a peaceful night of travel, the group reached a village to rest, where Luo Fan found that the scene changed as soon as he entered.

• Lin Xiaowei asked Luo Fan’s group to let her and David accompany them, and Luo Fan agreed after warning them about the dangers of hunting high-tier Weird.
• Luo Fan told Lin Xiaowei about China’s survivors, the Sequence Alliance, and the territory humanity had secured in Heilongjiang Province.
• Lin Xiaowei joked that Niu Dagang’s promise to take her back to China sounded like a death flag, making Luo Fan’s group laugh.
• Luo Fan’s group traveled through the night without encountering any Weird, and An Xiaoran spotted a nearby village where they could rest.
• Luo Fan entered the village and found that the scene before him had suddenly changed.

Luo Fan and his companions entered a hidden village where time and sunlight behaved strangely, and found that they could not escape. The villagers called the place Peach Blossom Village and insisted it was in China, despite Luo Fan’s claim that they were on Eastern Japan Island.

• Luo Fan and his companions discovered that the village’s dusk-lit scenery differed from the outside and that its sunlight did not bother the Weird Bride.
• Minako urged the group to leave, but they found that retreating did not change the scenery, and An Xiaoran flew in a loop back to them.
• Luo Fan led the group into Peach Blossom Village to question its villagers after they realized they could not escape.
• The village chief said Peach Blossom Village was in China, while Mo Yuling confirmed it was the same village they had seen on Eastern Japan Island.
• Luo Fan told the villagers they were on Eastern Japan Island, and the village chief and the other villagers angrily rejected his claim.

Luo Fan and his group entered Peach Blossom Village, where the villagers believed they were Chinese and lived in 1975. After arranging lodging and learning that the villagers had never left, Luo Fan began questioning how the village shop got its supplies.

• Luo Fan apologized for the misunderstanding, claimed he was leading a tour group, and persuaded the village chief to let the group stay overnight.
• The village chief asked whether they had seen someone with wings, but Luo Fan denied seeing anyone and kept An Xiaoran’s angel form secret.
• Luo Fan and An Xiaoran stayed at the chief’s house, where he gave braised eggs to the chief’s grandchildren and noticed An Xiaoran speaking warmly to another girl.
• Luo Fan spotted a calendar marked September 16, 1975, and learned that the villagers accepted the year as normal.
• The village chief said the villagers did not leave Peach Blossom Village and bought supplies at the village shop, prompting Luo Fan to ask how the shop restocked.

Luo Fan learned that Peach Blossom Village’s villagers never leave and that its shop replenishes supplies without restocking. The Weird Bride conjectured that a powerful rule-type Weird was hiding among the villagers and controlling the village, and Luo Fan began absorbing a Weird Crystal before his phone received a private message.

• The village chief and his family told Luo Fan that villagers had no reason to leave, supplies never ran out, and Huzi was expected to inherit the chief’s position.
• Luo Fan added the Weird Bride to a group chat and shared what he had learned about the village’s endless supplies.
• Zhao Chunfeng and Lin Feifei reported that the villagers believed it was 1975 and had never left the village, while Niu Dagang went to sleep.
• The Weird Bride deduced that a rule-type Weird had reversed the village’s day and night and was living among the villagers to strengthen its abilities.
• Luo Fan and the group agreed to search for the hidden Weird, and Luo Fan began absorbing a ninth-tier Weird Crystal.
• Luo Fan’s Doomsday Phone suddenly sounded a private-message notification.

After Niu Dagang reported that Peach Blossom Village’s so-called madman claimed the village was fake and contained Weirds, Luo Fan tried to uncover the truth. The Golden Weird Mirror gave no answer, but his godhead authority said identifying the hidden Weird would cost thirty million faith points, and Luo Fan went to meet Niu Dagang and the madman.

• Niu Dagang told Luo Fan that he had met Peach Blossom Village’s madman, who claimed the village was fake and that Weirds were there.
• Luo Fan asked the Golden Weird Mirror about the village and the Weird hiding there, but it gave no response.
• Luo Fan used his godhead authority and learned that identifying the hidden Weird would cost thirty million faith points.
• Luo Fan left the village chief’s home and followed Niu Dagang’s directions to a dilapidated house at the village’s edge.
• Luo Fan found Niu Dagang waiting beside a disheveled man lounging in a wicker chair, whom he took to be the village’s madman.

Luo Fan questioned Ren Ke, a villager dismissed as a madman, and heard that he claimed outsiders would soon become one of the villagers. As gossip raised a possible connection between Ren Ke and Chunxia, Minako arrived with important information she had uncovered.

• Niu Dagang introduced Luo Fan to Ren Ke, who warned that Luo Fan and the other outsiders would soon become one of the people of Peach Blossom Village.
• An old villager interrupted Ren Ke and said he had acted this way for a long time, while warning Luo Fan and Niu Dagang that Ren Ke had hurt someone before.
• Village women said Ren Ke had injured Chunxia because she did not believe him, though Chunxia reportedly did not remember knowing him.
• Luo Fan recalled that Chunxia had seemed interested in leaving the village before her husband stopped her.
• Minako told Luo Fan she had uncovered important information and had come early to share it with him.

Minako told Luo Fan that Peach Blossom Village residents feared leaving rather than simply having no desire to go, and Luo Fan concluded that this fear might be enforced by the rule-type weird. He decided to investigate the source of the villagers’ fear.

• Minako reported that a young villager’s mother had married into Peach Blossom Village and never returned to visit her family.
• The young woman told Minako that her mother wanted to go home but did not dare, then refused to explain and warned Minako not to ask such questions.
• Luo Fan realized that the villagers’ fear of leaving was a village taboo and reconsidered Ren Ke’s claims that the village was fake and contained a weird.
• Minako explained that the young woman seemed terrified after letting the secret slip, and Luo Fan praised Minako for the useful information.
• Luo Fan suspected the rule-type weird was keeping the villagers obedient through fear and decided to investigate that possibility.

Luo Fan learned that villagers often forgot their pasts, then discovered that David had begun forgetting people in their group. The chapter ended with Luo Fan and the others confronting David as he failed to recognize Luo Fan.

• Luo Fan returned to the village chief's house, where An Xiaoran played happily with the chief's grandchildren.
• After breakfast, Luo Fan questioned Chunxia while she washed clothes, and she said many villagers often forgot things, including where they came from.
• Niu Dagang summoned Luo Fan, reporting that David barely recognized their group.
• Luo Fan and Niu Dagang hurried to David's lodging, where Zhao Chunfeng explained that David had struggled to remember Lin Xiaowei.
• David looked at Luo Fan and said he had no recollection of him.

After David forgot the Hope Convoy members overnight, Luo Fan and the others worried that an unseen Weird was erasing their memories. The Weird Bride revealed that she was immune, and Luo Fan realized he and An Xiaoran might be protected as well.

• David's memory loss alarmed Luo Fan, Zhao Chunfeng, and the Hope Convoy, who feared they might also be forgetting things without noticing.
• Zhao Chunfeng asked Luo Fan to figure out what was happening, and their familiar banter briefly eased the group's tense mood.
• Lin Xiaowei urged everyone to focus on a solution, and Luo Fan said they needed to find the hidden Weird as soon as possible.
• Zhao Chunfeng suggested investigating Ren Ke, while Lin Feifei pointed to Chunxia as another lead.
• The Weird Bride said that no one could make her lose her memories, and Luo Fan realized that he and An Xiaoran might also be immune because of their Godhead Authority.

Luo Fan and the Hope Convoy discussed how Godhead Fragments seemed to protect him and An Xiaoran from memory loss, then split up to investigate the rule-type Weird. While questioning Chunxia, Luo Fan learned that people from other villages sometimes came to the village.

• Niu Dagang spoke up about how urgent the threat of memory loss felt to the Hope Convoy.
• Luo Fan revealed that he and An Xiaoran were also safe from losing their memories, and Lin Feifei suggested their Godhead Fragments were the reason.
• Niu Dagang said that Luo Fan, An Xiaoran, and the Weird Bride could help the group fight back against the Weird.
• The Hope Convoy members separated to seek information, with the Weird Bride going to find Ren Ke and Luo Fan continuing to investigate Chunxia.
• Luo Fan met Chunxia by the river and learned that outsiders from other villages sometimes visited the village.