Chapter Summaries

The Weird Bride and Luo Fan realized that Yamato’s Weird had been secretly watching them and deliberately made the surveillance withdraw. Yamato considered punishing Minako over her claims about their relationship, but Hua Hudie arrived with news that the Willow Immortal Elder had awakened.

• The Weird Bride and Luo Fan discussed their lingering sense of being watched and suspected Yamato’s Weird were monitoring them.
• The Weird Bride openly condemned Yamato, prompting the watching Weird to withdraw before she could attack them.
• The Weird confirmed the surveillance had ended, and Luo Fan revealed they had spoken aloud to warn the watchers away.
• The Weird reported their failure to Yamato, who dismissed them and turned his attention to Minako’s claims about Luo Fan and the Weird Bride.
• Hua Hudie entered Yamato’s hall and reported that the Willow Immortal Elder had awakened.

Yamato visited the awakened Willow Immortal Elder and discussed delaying the use of the Innate Yin Jade until the elder recovered. He exposed Minako’s attempt to betray Luo Fan and the Weird Bride, killed her, and then proposed disposing of Luo Fan.

• Yamato went to the park and saw that the Willow Immortal Elder had awakened after the Weird Bride used the Innate Yin Jade.
• The Weird Bride said the elder should rest until the following night before making an Uncanny Artifact.
• Yamato summoned Minako and revealed that she had told him Luo Fan and the Weird Bride were husband and wife.
• The Weird Bride and Luo Fan’s group learned Minako had betrayed them, and Yamato erased Minako with a gesture.
• Yamato asked the Weird Bride to let him dispose of Luo Fan.

Yamato suspected Luo Fan might be involved with the Weird Bride and wanted to kill him, but Luo Fan persuaded him that acting on rumors would make him a tool for others. Yamato admitted his mistake and apologized to the Weird Bride.

• Yamato declared that he wanted to kill Luo Fan, but the Weird Bride stood in his way and insisted that Yamato had no right to decide Luo Fan's fate.
• The Weird Bride explained that Minako had been killed for deceiving Yamato, while Luo Fan was an uninvolved victim.
• Luo Fan acknowledged Yamato's doubts but argued that killing people over rumors would let others manipulate Yamato into targeting anyone.
• Yamato accepted that Luo Fan's argument made sense, and the Weird Bride called him a brainless fool.
• Yamato apologized to the Weird Bride and promised not to be manipulated so easily again.

Yamato accepted Luo Fan’s explanation and apologized to the Weird Bride, then left while the Willow Immortal Elder recovered with the Innate Yin Jade. Luo Fan and the others awaited the next night, when the Elder was expected to help Yamato sever his connection to the Space-Time Dao Fruit, while they remained puzzled over Minako’s motives.

• Yamato apologized to the Weird Bride, and the Willow Immortal Elder called him foolish before the Weird Bride sent him back to his building.
• The Willow Immortal Elder thanked the Weird Bride for using the Innate Yin Jade to help him recover, while silently noting that Luo Fan possessed the Innate Yang Steel.
• Yamato returned to his building angry at Minako, and Hua Hudie questioned why she would have lied to him.
• Yamato agreed that Minako had probably lied and speculated that she wanted him to kill Luo Fan out of a grudge.
• Luo Fan, the Weird Bride, and the others kept their distance and hoped the Willow Immortal Elder could help Yamato sever his connection to the Space-Time Dao Fruit the next night.
• Niu Dagang and the others wondered why Minako had acted as she did.

Luo Fan and the others tried to understand why Minako had revealed his relationship with the Weird Bride to Yamato. They concluded she had not meant to betray the whole group, and the Weird Bride suggested Minako might have wanted Yamato to kill Luo Fan.

• Niu Dagang and the others discussed Minako’s betrayal but could not identify her motive.
• Lin Xiaowei recalled that Minako had seemed distracted and burdened in the days before her actions.
• Luo Fan reasoned that Minako had revealed only his relationship with the Weird Bride, rather than the group’s plans, so she likely had not intended to get everyone killed.
• Mo Yuling agreed that Minako’s goal might not have been to betray the group, while the others remained puzzled about what she stood to gain.
• The Weird Bride suggested that Minako had exposed Luo Fan so Yamato would watch or kill him, leaving the group wondering why Minako wanted him dead.

Luo Fan concluded that Minako had exposed his marriage to provoke Yamato into a fight so Yamato would die, leaving the Weird on Eastern Japan Island without a leader. After the Willow Immortal Elder recovered enough to forge an Uncanny Artifact, the Weird Bride unexpectedly let Yamato go first, leaving him moved by her apparent consideration.

• Luo Fan explained that Minako likely wanted Yamato dead, not the Hope Convoy, because she had provoked him while they planned to steal his spacetime Dao bone and flee.
• Lin Xiaowei and Zhao Chunfeng agreed that Minako’s goal was understandable but that exposing their information without permission still made her accountable.
• Luo Fan sent everyone to rest after they discussed Minako’s motive.
• The Willow Immortal Elder recovered during the day with help from the Weird Bride’s Innate Yin Jade.
• After night fell, the Weird Bride led Luo Fan and the others to the Willow Immortal Elder, then let Yamato go first to have his Uncanny Artifact forged.
• Yamato felt deeply touched and wondered whether the Weird Bride cared about him.

Yamato let the Willow Immortal Elder sever his Space-Time Dao Fruit, but the Weird Bride took it and gave it to Luo Fan, prompting Yamato to attack them. A burst of light erupted from the Dao Fruit, and Luo Fan, the Weird Bride, and Yamato vanished, leaving everyone bewildered.

• Yamato asked the Willow Immortal Elder to sever his Space-Time Dao Fruit, and the Elder pulled it from Yamato and cut it free.
• The Weird Bride seized the Space-Time Dao Fruit and pressed it into Luo Fan, calling him her husband.
• Yamato, enraged by the Weird Bride giving Luo Fan the Dao Fruit, ignored his injuries and lunged at them.
• Luo Fan drew his Weird Gun, and the Weird Bride shielded him as Yamato's attack struck the Space-Time Dao Fruit instead.
• The Dao Fruit released a brilliant flash, and Luo Fan, the Weird Bride, and Yamato vanished; Niu Dagang, Zhao Chunfeng, Hua Hudie, and the others could not explain what happened.

Luo Fan woke in a clean Hong City dated June 8, 2023, and wondered whether he had traveled back in time or fallen into an illusion. Unable to summon Black Bird, he found evidence of a time displacement and coerced a ride into the city from a driver.

• An elderly woman told Luo Fan that he was on the outskirts of Hong City and that the date was June 8, 2023.
• Luo Fan recalled the Space-Time Dao Fruit and the attack by Yamato, then considered whether he had traveled through time or was experiencing an illusion.
• The elderly woman said she had seen no one else nearby, and Luo Fan headed toward the city.
• Luo Fan found his powers intact but failed to summon Black Bird with Beast Spirit Doppelgänger, strengthening his suspicion that he had traveled through time.
• After a driver cursed at him for walking in the road, Luo Fan got into the car and crushed a stainless steel cup to persuade the man to give him a ride.

Luo Fan explored a peaceful city from before the apocalypse and tested whether he had traveled to another time and space. Facial recognition payment succeeded using another Luo Fan’s account, leaving that other Luo Fan puzzled by a three-yuan charge in Hong City.

• Luo Fan rode into the city with a middle-aged driver, then got out to take in the bustling streets and reflect on what to do next.
• Luo Fan entered a shopping center and used facial recognition payment to buy a can of cola.
• Luo Fan realized the payment had charged another version of himself, while the other Luo Fan wondered why he had been charged three yuan in Hong City.

A pre-apocalypse Luo Fan received a call from another version of himself and traveled to Hong City to meet him. The two Luo Fans met beneath the monument at Fortune Plaza, where the tracksuit-wearing Luo Fan struggled to believe the armored man was really him.

• The tracksuit-wearing Luo Fan noticed an unexplained three-yuan payment and answered a call from someone who claimed to be him.
• The caller named three girls Luo Fan had secretly liked and arranged to meet him beneath the monument at Fortune Plaza the next day.
• The tracksuit-wearing Luo Fan bought a high-speed train ticket to Hong City.
• The armored Luo Fan borrowed a young woman's phone, called his other self, and spent the night in an abandoned high-rise.
• The armored Luo Fan went to Fortune Plaza and met the tracksuit-wearing Luo Fan, who asked if he was really himself.

Luo Fan met his own self from three years earlier and explained that the Weird Apocalypse would soon begin. The younger Luo Fan asked whether his future self had traveled back to stop it.

• Luo Fan in Snake Scales Armor met Luo Fan in sportswear and took him to a hotel room to talk.
• Luo Fan revealed his storage-space superpower, and his younger self eagerly asked about future wealth.
• Luo Fan told his younger self that the Weird Apocalypse would soon plunge the world into chaos.
• Luo Fan described the Special-Type and Rule-Type Weird and explained that people could not establish safe zones.
• Luo Fan in sportswear asked whether his future self had traveled back to stop the Weird Apocalypse.

Luo Fan told his past self about the coming Weird Apocalypse and planned to contact government agencies, while the two arranged practical support for his return to civilized society. The chapter ended with both Luo Fans realizing that neither had usable money to cover his immediate expenses.

• Luo Fan explained that he had traveled back from the future by accident while fighting a powerful Weird and said he was the strongest Sequence User in China three years later.
• Luo Fan told his past self about the Weird Apocalypse and said he intended to contact government agencies before it broke out.
• Luo Fan in sportswear offered his ID card and bank card and agreed to get a new phone number while using a temporary replacement ID himself.
• Luo Fan in sportswear pointed out that his future self still needed money to buy a phone and cover other expenses.
• Luo Fan admitted that his daily Check-in Funds were only usable in the System Mall and that he had no cash or gold.

Luo Fan struggled to get spending money in the peaceful era, then used the Golden Weird Mirror to locate a gold bar worth one million. After flying off to retrieve it, his younger self was left contemplating the coming collapse of society and the deaths of most of humanity.

• Luo Fan realized his Check-in Funds could only be spent in the System Mall and struggled to find a way to make ordinary money.
• Luo Fan asked the Golden Weird Mirror how to obtain eight hundred thousand to a million, and it requested one Second-Order Weird Crystal in exchange.
• Luo Fan fed the mirror a Second-Order Weird Crystal, and it marked a gold bar worth one million on a riverbed map near Hong City.
• Luo Fan told his younger self he would retrieve the gold bar, jumped from the hotel window, and used Mimicry to turn into a black bird and fly away.
• Luo Fan's younger self watched him disappear and felt distressed at the thought of the Weird Apocalypse destroying society and killing most of humanity.

Luo Fan retrieved a gold bar from the Jiang River while disguised as a black bird, then drew public attention by transforming into a human and tearing open an overturned car to rescue a trapped girl. Bystanders filmed his supernatural abilities, potentially giving him the public exposure he wanted to attract the National Institutions.

• Luo Fan used the Golden Weird Mirror's coordinates to dive into the Jiang River, where he scanned the riverbed and retrieved a gold bar.
• Luo Fan flew out of the river as a black bird, astonishing several fishermen who had seen him dive underwater.
• While flying back toward his hotel, Luo Fan spotted an overturned car with a girl trapped inside and descended to help.
• Luo Fan transformed into human form, tore open the mangled car, and rescued the girl, then handed her to the woman beside him.
• Bystanders watched in disbelief, and several people recorded Luo Fan's transformation and rescue on their phones.

Videos of Luo Fan’s transformation and rescue went viral, and police questioned his present-day self before finding the Luo Fan who had traveled back from three years in the future. The future Luo Fan revealed that the Weird Apocalypse would devastate the country within months, then offered a weird crystal as proof.

• Multiple witnesses uploaded videos of Luo Fan changing from a Black Bird into a human and rescuing someone, and the footage went viral.
• Police detained the present-day Luo Fan at the station and questioned him about the videos.
• The present-day Luo Fan explained that his future self had traveled back three years, then gave the officers his future self’s phone number.
• The officers met the future Luo Fan, who confirmed he had come from three years ahead and answered their questions.
• The future Luo Fan warned that the Weird Apocalypse would begin that year and overwhelm the country within six months.
• The future Luo Fan placed a weird crystal on the table as evidence of his claims.

General Meng traveled to Hong City to question Luo Fan about the Weird appearing across China. Luo Fan identified the threats as mostly low-level and urged the government to investigate their origin to prevent the Weird Apocalypse.

• A military officer in Yanjing reviewed reports of increasingly frequent Weird incidents and learned that Luo Fan had arrived from a future timeline.
• General Meng decided to go to Hong City and meet Luo Fan in person.
• Luo Fan recognized General Meng as the man he had killed in another timeline, then cooperated with his questioning.
• General Meng showed Luo Fan footage and reports about Weird, and Luo Fan identified most of them as low-level threats.
• Luo Fan suspected a Rule-Type Weird was behind the school’s Death Domain and said finding the Weird’s origin mattered more than fighting them.

Luo Fan explained to General Meng that a Rule-Type Weird at the school might provide a way to learn more about the Weird Apocalypse, then went there alone. He scanned the school and found the humanoid Weird in the principal’s office, where it sensed his presence.

• Luo Fan told General Meng that he did not know how the Weird Apocalypse began but believed the Rule-Type Weird at the school could be questioned because it could speak human language.
• General Meng arranged for Luo Fan to travel by private plane to the cordoned-off school, where soldiers watched him enter alone.
• Luo Fan surveyed the school, put on the Far-Sensing Wave Hat, and used his mental power to scan the grounds.
• Luo Fan found a blue-skinned, well-dressed humanoid Weird in the principal’s office, and it sensed his scan.

Luo Fan confronted a rule-type Weird in the principal’s office and revealed that he was a stronger Sequence User despite the Weird’s power to seal abilities. When the Weird Gun’s Innate Yang Steel weakened the Weird, he apologized and agreed to answer Luo Fan’s questions.

• Luo Fan entered the principal’s office and introduced himself as an LV57 Sequence User.
• Luo Fan used his Monitoring Glasses to identify the rule-type Weird as LV48.
• The Weird claimed his innate vision-sealing power could overcome even sixth- or seventh-tier Sequence Users.
• Luo Fan produced iced black tea from storage, astonishing the Weird, who believed abilities and Uncanny Artifacts could not be used in his presence.
• The Weird threatened Luo Fan, but Luo Fan placed the Weird Gun on the desk, and its Innate Yang Steel weakened him.
• The Weird apologized and promised to tell Luo Fan everything he knew.

Luo Fan questioned a rule-type Weird about the Weird Realm and its merging with Blue Star, learning that cracks in space-time had brought the Weird to Earth. After the interrogation, Luo Fan considered killing him for his crystal and the humans he had killed.

• Luo Fan asked the rule-type Weird where he came from and learned that he had arrived from the Weird Realm.
• Luo Fan pointed the Weird Gun at the rule-type Weird and demanded answers about the two worlds.
• The rule-type Weird explained that the Weird Realm and Blue Star were slowly merging, allowing Weird to cross through unstable cracks in space-time.
• The rule-type Weird said he had no way to return and knew neither why the worlds were merging nor how to stop it.
• Luo Fan considered killing the rule-type Weird for his crystal and the thousands of humans he had killed, and the Weird asked whether Luo Fan planned to kill him.

Luo Fan learned that the Weird Realm and Blue Star were beginning to fuse and planned to use his powers and the National Institutions to reach the Weird Realm. Meanwhile, another Luo Fan returned home for a meal and was confronted by a figure in a red wedding gown.

• Luo Fan spared the rule-type Weird after questioning it about the worlds’ impending fusion.
• Luo Fan told General Meng what he had learned and said he wanted to visit the Weird Realm.
• General Meng agreed to support Luo Fan as he prepared to gather Faith Points through the National Institutions.
• The other Luo Fan returned to his hometown, got an additional ID card, and treated himself to an expensive buffet.
• The other Luo Fan opened his door and found an inhuman figure wearing a bright red wedding gown.