Recaps

Yang Yong became Mechanical City's Third Elder and drew on its supernatural power to open three apertures, while the little girl watched him in silence. Outside, the zombie horde was eradicated and the Survival Convoy entered the Inner City, leaving Yang Yong alone with the girl as he asked her name.

• Yang Yong received an immense supply of supernatural power as Mechanical City's Third Elder and opened an aperture, then carefully nurtured it to ease the strain on his meridians.
• The little girl watched the glowing apertures on Yang Yong's Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace and ignored video calls from the other eight elders.
• Xiao Ying and the others wiped out the zombies in the Barbican, and citywide announcements revealed that Yang Yong had replaced He Jie as Third Elder.
• Mechanical soldiers escorted the Survival Convoy into the Inner City and served its members fresh vegetables at Yang Yong's residence.
• Yang Yong opened three more apertures, noticed the little girl's loneliness, and softly asked her name.

Yang Yong watched the survivors in Zone 36 and tried to learn how to use his new authority as Third Elder, but the little girl in the control room began acting strangely. When she froze and the room locked him in, Yang Yong contacted Mang Dabiao, but received no reply.

• Yang Yong watched the survivors emerge after the Zombies were cleared from Zone 36 and asked the little girl if he could visit her often; she pointed to herself and raised one finger.
• Yang Yong considered the mystery surrounding the Mechanical City, the missing city lord, the dead fat man, and the Sequence Devourer, while the little girl briefly showed a disturbing expression behind him.
• Yang Yong tried to use the control-room screens to requisition supplies, but each one rejected him for insufficient permissions.
• The little girl froze, the call requests stopped, and Yang Yong discovered that every exit control denied him permission.
• Yang Yong contacted Mang Dabiao through the Contract Mark and said he was trapped in what might be the Mechanical City's control room, but Mang Dabiao did not answer.

Xiao Ying took Mang Dabiao’s Evil-Slaying Blade, and Cao Xianming’s attempt to locate Yang Yong exposed him to a terrifying presence that left him unable to divine Yang Yong’s whereabouts. In the Mechanical City, He Jie blamed Wang Hongyu and Liu Yang for ruining his plans and checked a device tracking his subordinates’ vitality.

• Xiao Ying beat Mang Dabiao for calling her “big sis” and borrowed the Evil-Slaying Blade Yang Yong had forged for him.
• Mang Dabiao received a fragmented message that Yang Yong was trapped in the Mechanical City control room and asked Cao Xianming to locate him.
• Cao Xianming’s divination revealed a writhing mass of flesh whose aura nearly exhausted his supernatural power, and he told Mang Dabiao he could not find Yang Yong.
• Mang Dabiao accepted that Yang Yong would survive and returned to the group of women while the Survival Convoy enjoyed its peaceful respite.
• He Jie smashed objects in his residence, cursed Wang Hongyu and Liu Yang, and examined a curio displaying the vitality of his Transcendents.

He Jie retrieved a beating heart and a forged City Lord token, then vanished to provoke the City Lord. A violent disaster struck the Mechanical City, the electric shield vanished, and Yang Yong saw the little girl awaken and track He Jie instead of restoring the shield.

• He Jie concluded Wang Hongyu had left the Mechanical City with Liu Yang's Void-Opening Sequence, then raged over his inability to reach him.
• He Jie used a special key to open a cabinet, took a beating heart and a forged City Lord token, and disappeared beneath a cloak to force the City Lord to appear.
• Yang Yong was thrown against a wall when the Mechanical City shook, and he saw the little girl smile at him and silently say, “You finally noticed.”
• The little girl frantically searched surveillance feeds while the screens showed that the city's electric shield had disappeared.
• Yang Yong watched footage of He Jie walking unseen through the city and wondered why the little girl tracked him instead of restoring the shield.

He Jie used the City Lord’s privileges to open every Light Gate and lock them against the Eight Great Elders, demanding that the City Lord reveal himself or let the Mechanical City fall. The elders discovered the He Jie they confronted was a decoy, while the real He Jie led a Zombie army toward the city, leaving Grand Elder Liu Yijun to order the city’s defenses.

• He Jie inserted the City Lord Token and an Eerie’s heart into the Nine-Person Conference Table, then used the City Lord’s privileges to open every Light Gate and lock the controls.
• He Jie confronted the Eight Great Elders and declared he would destroy the Mechanical City unless the City Lord appeared.
• Grand Elder Liu Yijun restrained He Jie with supernatural power, but the captive He Jie mocked the elders and then exploded.
• Liu Yijun checked the surveillance feed and saw a Zombie army approaching the open gates, with the real He Jie among them.
• Liu Yijun ordered the elders to organize the entire city’s defenses.

The elders struggled to restore Mechanical City's Shield, but He Jie's Fake City Lord Token overrode their authority. They reached Yang Yong's device through Mang Dabiao, who said Yang Yong could not come.

• The Grand Elder and the other seven elders passed a resolution to restore Mechanical City's Shield, but a higher authority repeatedly disrupted its reconstruction.
• The Grand Elder identified fragments of a Fake City Lord Token and realized that only all Nine Great Elders or the true city lord could oppose it.
• The elders and He Jie searched Mechanical City for Yang Yong, while He Jie suspected he was in the Core Control Room.
• The Sixth Elder contacted the device registered under Li Zhi and reached Mang Dabiao, who confirmed he could contact his boss.
• The Grand Elder asked Mang Dabiao to tell Yang Yong to come to the Core Area, but Mang Dabiao replied that he couldn't come.

Mechanical City’s defenses collapsed as Eerie poured in, while Yang Yong escaped the Core Control Room and joined the elders. The elders restored the Lightning Shield, but their order to close all Light Gates had no effect.

• The Grand Elder ordered the Light Gate Generators destroyed, but Eerie entered Mechanical City and began killing its residents.
• The Survival Convoy defended its people while Xiao Ying used the Evil-Slaying Blade to burn through attacking Eerie.
• Yang Yong followed the Grand Elder’s instructions, found the tiny exit option on the main control screen, and appeared in the Third Elder’s seat.
• The elders unanimously voted to restart the Lightning Shield, and Yang Yong’s vote helped restore the shield around Mechanical City.
• The elders voted to close all Light Gates, but the gates did not respond despite the motion taking effect.

As the little girl inside the Core Control Room sabotaged Mechanical City’s defenses and let the Zombies in, Grand Elder Liu Yijun revealed that the city lord had gone into seclusion and left coordinates and instructions. Liu Yijun entrusted Yang Yong with the city’s remaining survivors and offered him temporary authority, leaving Yang Yong hesitating over whether to accept.

• The little girl overrode Mechanical City’s defenses, made its weapons target the city, sent Mechanical Soldiers running in circles, and repeatedly opened its gates to the Zombies.
• Grand Elder Liu Yijun revealed that the city lord had gone into seclusion after sensing a trick by the Eerie and had instructed him to go to 49.4616°N, 119.7092°E on April 26, 2030.
• Liu Yijun explained that the city lord had intended him to bring a fleeing convoy into Mechanical City, including people from several sequences, Zombies, and a Snake Immortal, and noted that Yang Yong had ultimately reached the city’s core.
• As Zombies poured through the Light Gate, Liu Yijun said he would trust Yang Yong and asked him to protect ordinary people and survivors from other sequences.
• The elders approved a motion granting Yang Yong temporary authority over the Council of Elders, and Yang Yong questioned Liu Yijun about why he had chosen him.

The Grand Elder transferred the Council of Elders’ authority to Yang Yong as the elders sacrificed themselves to trap the city lord’s incarnation of the seven emotions. Left to defend Mechanical City against the Zombie King, Yang Yong absorbed the Zombie King’s heart into his Bone Ring and was joined by Cao Xianming and the Survival Convoy.

• The Grand Elder told Yang Yong that the elders would suppress the city lord’s incarnation of the seven emotions while Yang Yong organized Mechanical City’s automatic defenses.
• The Council of Elders passed its authority to Yang Yong, flooding him with supernatural power as the eight elders transformed into data and vanished.
• The Second Elder explained that the elders would isolate the city lord’s incarnation of the seven emotions in the Core Control Room and leave Mechanical City to Yang Yong.
• Yang Yong resolved to fight, summoned the Red-Clothed Female Ghost, and sent her to fetch Old Cao.
• Yang Yong fed the Zombie King’s heart to the Nine Nether Yuanchen White Bone Ring, which swallowed it and began to change.
• Cao Xianming entered the conference room with the members of the Survival Convoy.

Yang Yong appointed Cao Xianming to command Mechanical City’s defenses as a zombie horde advanced, then headed out with Yezi and the Red-Clothed Female Ghost to deal with the eerie. The chapter ended with Yang Yong asking Yezi to spread her vines throughout the city.

• Yang Yong appointed Cao Xianming First Strategist Under the Third Elder, and Cao Xianming’s expanded data model revealed the zombies closing in on the Inner City.
• Yang Yong appointed Cao Xianming commander-in-chief, and Cao Xianming took control of Mechanical City’s troops, turrets, and defenses.
• Yang Yong told Mang Dabiao and the others to protect Cao Xianming, then set out with Yezi and the Red-Clothed Female Ghost to fight the eerie.
• Xiao Ying followed Yang Yong with the Evil-Slaying Blade and charged toward the direction Cao Xianming identified as having the most eerie.
• Yang Yong climbed a signal-tower-like building, set down the World Tree Sapling, and asked Yezi to spread her vines throughout Mechanical City.

Yezi spread ivy through Mechanical City while Yang Yong waited for the Nine Nether Yuanchen White Bone Ring to absorb the Zombie King Heart and prepare for the approaching Zombie King. He Jie spread rumors that Yang Yong had seized power and killed the other elders, leaving survivors uncertain whether to flee toward the Core Area.

• Yezi planted a seed that grew into ivy vines spreading across Mechanical City, and Xiao Ying left as Yang Yong prepared his move.
• Yang Yong sat cross-legged and waited as the Bone Ring absorbed the Zombie King Heart while zombies overran the Outer City.
• Cao Xianming ordered survivors to rush toward the Core Area without revealing that Mechanical City was relying on Yang Yong.
• He Jie activated his hidden measures and spread rumors that Yang Yong had killed the eight elders and taken control of Mechanical City.
• Survivors hesitated to approach the Core Area, and one man wondered whether Yang Yong was actually an eerie being.

As the Zombie King’s horde surged toward Mechanical City, Yang Yong ordered Yezi to act, and she unleashed her vines across the city. The vines rescued survivors and devoured zombies throughout Mechanical City, though Yezi could sustain the immense effort for only one second.

• Zombies poured through the Light Gate, overrunning a family and advancing toward the Inner City as the Zombie King awakened.
• Yang Yong saw the approaching threat, while He Jie laughed and hoped the battle would force the city lord to emerge.
• Yang Yong told Yezi to act, and she spread vines across Mechanical City despite the strain on her body.
• Vines saved a besieged man in an alley by draining seven zombies, then rescued Sunflower Woman from a surrounding horde.
• Vines spread through the city, killing zombies at the Abandoned Machine Repair Plant, an underground shelter entrance, and a watchtower.

Yezi’s vines briefly saved survivors before collapsing, as Mechanical City’s forces battled the zombie horde and Xiao Ying held a street with her Evil-Slaying Blade. Yang Yong faced the approaching five-meter Zombie King and prepared to rely on the cultivation method he still considered his cheat.

• Yezi exhausted herself, causing her vines to droop, but her brief intervention gave survivors time to flee toward the Core Area.
• Mechanical City’s defenses opened fire and its mechanical soldiers attacked, while mutant zombies tore through the turrets and joined the battle.
• Xiao Ying cut down zombies with her forty-meter Evil-Slaying Blade and its blue evil fire, then recognized that the approaching Zombie King was the battle’s true threat.
• Yang Yong watched the powerful Mutant Wood-Armored Zombie King approach and doubted he could stop it with his bone armor.
• Yang Yong reminded himself that he still had the cultivation method of over two hundred words.

Yang Yong repeatedly read the White Bone Dao Sect cultivation art and entered a vision that revealed the power and construction of the Nine Nether Bone Armor. As the Zombie King approached, the armor spread across Yang Yong’s body, and he realized it was a core component of a larger white-bone weapon system.

• Yang Yong ignored his lack of understanding and repeatedly read the cultivation art while the Zombie King approached outside and the City Lord’s seven-emotions avatar caused trouble inside.
• The bone armor spread from the right side of Yang Yong’s body toward the left, silently reshaping itself.
• Yang Yong’s consciousness entered a vision of immortal mountains that shifted into a battlefield, where he witnessed a cultivator wearing Nine Nether Bone Armor withstand a barrage of attacks.
• Yang Yong returned to the rooftop as the Zombie King approached and received the armor’s refining methods, materials, runes, and restrictions from the cultivation art.
• Yang Yong recognized the Nine Nether Bone Armor as a core component of the white-bone weapon system and declared that he was no longer squishy.

Yang Yong refined the White-Bone Giant’s consciousness into the Nine Nether Bone Armor, completing its full-body armor as the Zombie King entered the Outer City. Wang Ying attacked the Zombie King with her Sequence Three ability, but her saber strikes barely marked its wooden skin.

• The Evil Eye Master distracted the White-Bone Giant while Yang Yong used the Nine Nether Divine Prohibition to bind and refine its consciousness.
• Yang Yong drove nine runes into the White-Bone Giant, transforming its finger-bone vessel into the prototype of the Nine Nether Bone Armor.
• The armor spread over Yang Yong’s entire body, and he announced that the Nine Nether Bone Armor was complete.
• Wang Ying used the Heavenly Eye System to target the Zombie King with Sky-Rending Roar, striking it from 108 angles.
• Wang Ying’s attack failed to penetrate the Zombie King’s defenses, so she swung again and condensed the 108 saber streaks into one powerful strike.

Xiao Ying obeyed Jiang Chen’s order and let the Zombie King pass, then held back the zombie army while Yang Yong prepared to face the monster. The Zombie King reached the high-rise as Yang Yong waited for the Nine Nether Bone Armor’s power to stabilize and read the scripture again.

• Xiao Ying charged the Zombie King with her Evil-Slaying Blade, but Jiang Chen ordered her to make way, and she stepped aside.
• Xiao Ying blocked the advancing zombie army and cut down wave after wave with her Evil-Slaying Blade.
• Yang Yong sensed a dormant power within the Nine Nether Bone Armor and realized it might awaken once he gathered every component of the Nine Nether Series.
• The Zombie King crossed the ruins toward Yang Yong’s high-rise, while Yang Yong stood his ground and waited for his armor’s power to stabilize as he reread the scripture.

Yang Yong’s Nine Nether Bone Armor began awakening with ancient runes, drawing the attention of Corpse Ancestor Jiang Chen, while Yezi fought the approaching Zombie King. The Zombie King destroyed her vines with its power of withering and roared at Yang Yong’s group.

• Yang Yong recited the cultivation art as supernatural power surged into the Nine Nether Bone Armor and ancient runes began to appear.
• Jiang Chen sensed Yang Yong’s aura vanish, traced it through Xiaoying, and saw the runes forming on the armor before deciding not to investigate further.
• As the Zombie King closed to within two hundred meters, Yezi woke and sent ivy vines piercing into its body.
• Yezi failed to drain the Zombie King’s flesh and blood, and it snapped her vines when she tried to restrain it.
• The Zombie King spread gray light that withered every vine to ash, and Yezi realized its withering power countered her life-draining ability and that she was outmatched.
• The Zombie King roared with killing intent, and Yang Yong understood what the roar meant.

Zheng Xiaofeng shielded Yezi from the Zombie King, then challenged him to close combat while Yang Yong continued cultivating and strengthening the Nine Nether Bone Armor. After the Zombie King badly injured Zheng Xiaofeng, he recovered with a tougher layer of Iron Armor and charged back into the fight with both fists.

• The Zombie King hurled an Alloy House at Yezi, and Zheng Xiaofeng blocked it before throwing it back at him.
• As the Zombie King charged, Zheng Xiaofeng told Yang Yong to stay put while Yang Yong continued reciting his cultivation technique and inscribing runes on the Nine Nether Bone Armor.
• Zheng Xiaofeng met the Zombie King in hand-to-hand combat, but their first punch sent him crashing into an alloy wall and shattered his Iron Armor.
• Wang Ying prepared to draw her saber, but Zheng Xiaofeng laughed, tore himself free of the wall, and charged again despite his injuries.
• Zheng Xiaofeng's Iron Armor crumbled and regrew darker and stronger, and he struck the Zombie King with both fists.

Zheng Xiaofeng deliberately used the brute-force Zombie King to endure repeated blows and awaken his Sequence 3 bone-strengthening ability. As the Zombie King pummeled him into the ground, Yang Yong waited for the moment he would need to intervene.

• Zheng Xiaofeng repeatedly let the Zombie King strike different parts of his body, believing the deadly pressure would break his barrier and temper his Iron Armor.
• The Zombie King grew enraged, gathered its strength, and slammed Zheng Xiaofeng into the alloy street before pounding him with both fists.
• Yang Yong prepared to attack, but Cao Xianming stopped him and explained that Zheng Xiaofeng needed tremendous force to awaken Sequence 3 and strengthen his bones.
• Yang Yong held his fully charged Heaven-Breaking Strike in reserve while the Zombie King's blows buried Zheng Xiaofeng and blood seeped through his Iron Armor.
• The Survival Convoy watched the beating on a Light Screen, and Cao Xianming and Ma Xiaotong suggested that Zheng Xiaofeng was seeking a breakthrough by getting beaten.

Zheng Xiaofeng endured the Zombie King’s blows while Cao Xianming held Yang Yong back, hoping the attacks would awaken a power within Zheng’s bones. After the third, even stronger punch landed, the chapter left Zheng’s fate unresolved.

• Mechanical City’s survivors discussed the Zombie Kings and heard rumors about the City Lord and Mechanical City’s past.
• Cao Xianming gathered the rumors through his Data Model and began analyzing them.
• The Zombie King shattered Zheng Xiaofeng’s Iron Armor and struck him, but Zheng survived the first unarmored blow.
• Cao Xianming stopped Yang Yong from intervening, and Zheng smiled as the second punch seemed to awaken a dormant power in his marrow.
• The Zombie King brought down a third punch with greater force, and a crack sounded.

Yang Yong attacked the Zombie King to buy time while Yezi rescued Zheng Xiaofeng, whose shattered bones began forging into hundred-fold steel bones. Yang Yong’s barrage failed to pierce the Zombie King’s defenses, and the fight continued with his weapons, ghosts, and furnace.

• Cao Xianming told Yang Yong to attack as the sequence barrier broke, and Yang Yong’s Heaven-Breaking Strike forced the Zombie King back one step.
• Yezi used ivy vines to drag the badly injured Zheng Xiaofeng out of the battlefield and back to the Core Area.
• Zheng Xiaofeng’s broken bones were crushed and reforged into denser, metallic hundred-fold forging steel bones as Doctor Zhu Yuhao and his wife began treating him.
• Yang Yong unleashed more than a hundred punches at the Zombie King, but the creature stood firm and took no meaningful damage.
• Yang Yong sent throwing knives, the Red-Clothed Female Ghost, and the Little Girl Ghost after the Zombie King, then summoned the Ten-Thousand-Forging Primordial Furnace to rain flame blades upon it.

Yang Yong discovered that the Nine Nether Bone Armor could instantly repair itself with Mechanical City's supernatural power, letting him survive the Zombie King's attacks. As he repeatedly charged back into battle, the fight became a war of attrition that favored him, while He Jie watched from hiding and realized the Zombie King would eventually run out of stamina.

• Yang Yong's barrage irritated the Zombie King, but after three minutes of attacking, Yang Yong's fatigue let the Zombie King punch him into an alloy wall.
• Yang Yong found the Nine Nether Bone Armor intact and realized the Nine Great Elders' supernatural power had repaired and reinforced it almost instantly.
• Yang Yong repeatedly charged the Zombie King, who knocked him away each time, but the armor kept regenerating and the Zombie King steadily spent his stamina.
• Mechanical City's districts watched the fight on Light Screens and wondered who Yang Yong was and whose subordinate he was.
• He Jie watched from a concealed underground chamber and realized Yang Yong's endless supernatural power had turned the fight into an attrition battle the Zombie King could not win.
• He Jie checked the zombie army's progress in the other districts, and his expression darkened.

As Mechanical City gained the upper hand against the Zombies, He Jie panicked over his failing mission and was contacted by the Holy Envoy through a mirror. He admitted that he had not yet done what the Holy Envoy ordered.

• Cao Xianming used elite troops and the Nine Great Elders' authority to contain the Zombies and close several Light Gates.
• He Jie grew frantic as outsiders helped Mechanical City turn the battle around and feared the consequences of his mission failing.
• He Jie smashed the secret chamber in a fit of rage, then abruptly became obsequious and faced a mist-covered mirror.
• A figure appeared in the mirror, and He Jie kowtowed to it and greeted it as the Holy Envoy.
• The Holy Envoy asked whether He Jie had completed the order, and He Jie tremblingly answered that he had not.

He Jie received word from the Holy Envoy that their race had seized the initiative and would soon send a great army to march. Before he could celebrate, a massive blade split the mirror and provoked a woman's scream, drawing Xiao Ying toward it.

• The Holy Envoy punished He Jie by having black creatures gnaw at his shadow, then stopped them when he begged for mercy.
• The Holy Envoy sent He Jie a message, and he announced that their race had seized the initiative and would soon dispatch a great army.
• The lights suddenly came on, and an enormous blade cut through the alloy floor toward He Jie and the mirror.
• He Jie dodged the blade, but it struck and split the mirror, which screamed like a woman.
• Xiao Ying rushed into the room, ignored He Jie, and charged toward the broken mirror.

Xiao Ying pulled two entities from the mirrors and ate them, then prepared to leave after Cao Xianming confirmed there was no more. At Cao Xianming’s request, she turned back to help restrain He Jie as he began fading into a semispiritual state.

• Xiao Ying reached into the shattered mirror, pulled out a writhing mass of black mist, and ate it.
• Xiao Ying summoned a phantom beast whose roar froze the half-figure in the other mirror, then dragged it out and ate it too.
• Cao Xianming appeared on a Light Screen and asked Xiao Ying whether she had enjoyed the meal; she praised him and asked for more.
• After Cao Xianming said there was no more, Xiao Ying started to leave with the Evil-Slaying Blade, but he called her back and asked her to restrain He Jie.
• He Jie began turning blurred and transparent as he used his semispiritual ability to fade from the real world.