Arc 7Escape to the Mirage Caravan

Yang Yong and Cao Xianming reunited the Survival Convoy and uncovered the Buddhist Cultivator Society's scheme to harvest survivors' emotions and feed their bodies to the Eerie. They escaped the underground world by provoking the Kraken and fled a Sequence Five pursuer into the Mirage Caravan.

  • Yang Yong forged weapons for Mang Dabiao and Hu Xian'er, then searched the eerie domains for the scattered convoy members.
  • Yang Yong refined the buffet hall's food into blood beads, and Xiao Xuan awakened Fierce-Eyed Guanyin after swallowing one.
  • Yang Yong rescued Cao Xianming, whose deductions and a hidden notebook exposed the Buddhist Cultivator Society's emotion-harvesting illusion domains.
  • Yang Yong restored his sealed curios and forged protective shirts, while Cao Xianming devised a way to free Wang Ying from the Beast Arena.
  • Yang Yong rescued Wang Ying and Wang Qian from the central building, and Mang Dabiao reunited every member of the Survival Convoy in the underground cavern.
  • Cao Xianming planned an escape, and Yang Yong sent the Red-Clothed Female Ghost to locate their vehicles and retrieve Cao Xianming's iPad.
  • Cao Xianming had Xiao Xuan provoke the Kraken to disrupt the underground world, and Yang Yong broke the spatial barrier with the White Bone Ring as the convoy fled.
  • Cao Xianming led the convoy off a cliff into the Mirage Caravan to escape a Sequence Five pursuer, and Yang Yong found a clone for sale with a 97% chance of awakening Sequence Transcendence.
Chapters 151–175 Vol. 2 Read

Ch. 151Soul-Binding Fan

Yang Yong turned the eerie corpses in the Ghost Domain into curio materials and forged Hu Xian'er a Soul-Binding Fan that could absorb blood moon energy. After she accepted it, Mang Dabiao changed its mind about its weapon and asked Yang Yong to forge it a forty-meter saber.

  • Yang Yong refined eerie body parts with the Ten-Thousand-Forging Primordial Furnace while Mang Dabiao and Hu Xian'er gathered more from the building.
  • When the White Bone Ring reached its storage limit, Yang Yong decided to forge artifacts for his companions from the materials he had collected.
  • Yang Yong crafted the Soul-Binding Fan from eerie hair, bones, and other remains, and gave it to Hu Xian'er.
  • Hu Xian'er transformed into her Fox Immortal appearance and thanked Yang Yong, pleased that the fan could absorb blood moon energy.
  • Mang Dabiao asked Yang Yong to forge it a forty-meter saber instead of the sword it had first wanted.

Ch. 152Evil-Slaying Blade

Yang Yong and his companions forged the Evil-Slaying Blade, then fled the building under a growing sense of danger. Hu Xian'er led them through a search party to a haunted opera theater, where a performer summoned them onto the stage.

  • Mang Dabiao taught Yang Yong a shrinking formation, which Yang Yong forged into the Ten-Thousand-Forging Primordial Furnace.
  • Yang Yong forged the Evil-Slaying Blade from sinister bones, but gave it to Mang Dabiao after learning that each swing stole the wielder's lifespan.
  • Yang Yong, Mang Dabiao, and Hu Xian'er gathered supplies and left the building as two bald men arrived and triggered an alarm.
  • Hu Xian'er concealed the group with an illusion and guided them past the searching puppets to a strange plaza.
  • The group encountered an eerie opera theater, where a grinning performer pointed a wooden sword at them and ordered them to take the stage.

Ch. 153The Ability to Smile Was Stripped Straight from Me

Yang Yong and his companions rescued Huang Xiaojuan from a strange performance that stripped people of their ability to smile, while Hu Xian'er suffered the same affliction. Suspecting the Ghost Domain was stealing the living’s emotions, Yang Yong prepared to search for Old Cao and find a way out.

  • Yang Yong, Mang Dabiao, and Hu Xian'er found Huang Xiaojuan entranced by a performance and realized the square was affecting everyone inside.
  • Hu Xian'er possessed her Dima, Huang Xiaojuan, and controlled her long enough to lead her out of the square before leaving her body.
  • Yang Yong knocked Huang Xiaojuan unconscious when she tried to return, and Mang Dabiao carried her to safety.
  • Hu Xian'er explained that the area had compelled her to cheer and smile, then stripped away her ability to smile for about three hours.
  • Mang Dabiao suspected the Ghost Domain was collecting the living’s Seven Emotions and Six Desires, and Yang Yong connected the idea to the fear-inducing office building where Wang Qian was.
  • Yang Yong forged three Semi-Curio whips, ordered the group to search for Old Cao without entering eerie zones, and sent them to rescue other convoy members only when it was safe.

Ch. 154Familiar faces

Yang Yong, Hu Xian'er, Huang Xiaojuan, and Mang Dabiao searched the Ghost Domain for Cao Xianming, who tried to use its corrupting power to weaken the eerie eye suppressing his abilities. Elsewhere, Wang Ying continued her arena winning streak, and Yang Yong encountered a motionless man from the Qinglongzhai Village disaster.

  • Hu Xian'er woke Huang Xiaojuan and explained the situation, then Huang Xiaojuan paired with Hu Xian'er while Yang Yong and Mang Dabiao searched alone.
  • Cao Xianming resisted the KTV illusion with the help of the eerie eye in his mind and tried to use the Ghost Domain's corruption to wear away its influence.
  • Wang Ying defeated another faceless man with the Black Gold Bone Blade, reaching a 300-win streak before demanding another opponent.
  • Yang Yong spotted familiar faces from the Qinglongzhai Village disaster while exploring the Ghost Domain.
  • Yang Yong found the middle-aged man surnamed Li standing motionless in an empty building and pulled him toward the entrance with his bone whip.

Ch. 155The eerie buffet hall

Yang Yong searched the eerie buildings for help and found Wang Ying trapped in an arena where she had to keep fighting. He later entered a buffet hall and encountered Zheng Xiaofeng beside its endless cauldron.

  • Yang Yong gathered several former members of the convoy, including Xiao Xuan, Xiao Liao, and Zhuo Fujiao, as he searched for Transcendents.
  • Yang Yong discovered Wang Ying fighting the Man-Eating Two-Headed Bull in an arena that sealed his abilities; she won her 304th consecutive match, but another Eerie appeared immediately.
  • Yang Yong failed to pull Wang Ying out with his bone whip and left to seek help.
  • Yang Yong entered a buffet hall where blood-eyed diners devoured inexhaustible food served from a bronze cauldron.
  • Yang Yong recognized Zheng Xiaofeng standing beside the cauldron.

Ch. 156Here, Try Eating This

Yang Yong discovered that the buffet hall’s food drained people’s appetite while supplying supernatural power, then used his Ten-Thousand-Forging Primordial Furnace to refine the food into potent blood beads. After Xiao Xuan nearly ate herself to death, he offered her a large bead as a test.

  • Yang Yong pulled Zheng Xiaofeng away from the buffet hall and learned that eating its food boosted his Armorer Sequence power while gradually draining his appetite.
  • Yang Yong sent Xiao Xuan into the hall and recorded how its influence overwhelmed her, then used his furnace to refine a giant leg of meat into a blood bead.
  • Zheng Xiaofeng swallowed the first blood bead and confirmed that it contained purer, greater supernatural power than the food.
  • Yang Yong spent most of the day refining the hall’s food into a large blood bead while Xiao Xuan continued eating until her belly swelled painfully.
  • Yang Yong pulled Xiao Xuan from the hall, waited for her to recover, and offered her the large blood bead to try.

Ch. 157Sequence name-Fierce-Eyed Guanyin

Xiao Xuan awakened Sequence name-Fierce-Eyed Guanyin after swallowing a blood bead forged by Yang Yong, and the group gathered more treasures from the Eerie Domain. When the serving maids became alert, Yang Yong ordered everyone to retreat, then asked Xiao Xuan about her new ability.

  • Xiao Xuan swallowed a brown blood bead and awakened Sequence name-Fierce-Eyed Guanyin without a Sequence Injection.
  • Yang Yong realized the blood beads might increase Transcendents’ Supernatural Power and help ordinary people awaken, then forged bone whips for Zheng Xiaofeng and Xiao Xuan.
  • Yang Yong refined more than a hundred thumb-sized blood beads while the group extracted food from the hall.
  • The serving maids’ eyes came alive, so Yang Yong stopped the group and led them away before they were discovered.
  • After finding a concealed place to rest, Yang Yong asked Xiao Xuan about her Sequence One ability and its combat strength.

Ch. 158Furious Iron Fist

Xiao Xuan demonstrated the overwhelming power of her new Furious Iron Fist, and Yang Yong explained the convoy’s plan to find Cao Xianming and escape the Eerie Domain. Meanwhile, Cao Xianming restored his Analyst ability but lost his Shadow Escape Talisman and was trapped by the eerie women.

  • Xiao Xuan dented Zheng Xiaofeng’s Sequence Two iron armor with a single punch from her Furious Iron Fist.
  • Yang Yong told Zheng Xiaofeng and Xiao Xuan that they would find Cao Xianming, uncover the truth behind the Eerie Domain, and force their way out.
  • Cao Xianming used the eerie power in the realm of debauchery to wear away the contamination in his mind and restore his Sequence Two: Analyst abilities.
  • The eerie women overwhelmed Cao Xianming and stole his Shadow Escape Talisman, leaving him restrained and crying out for Yang Yong, Zheng Xiaofeng, and Wang Ying to save him.

Ch. 159Refined from Eerie "food"-who would dare eat that?

Yang Yong’s group rescued Cao Xianming from the bewildering grounds and fled into a mysterious glowing door, where they reunited with Mang Dabiao. With Cao Xianming’s analytical abilities restored, Yang Yong recounted their experiences, but Cao Xianming first asked for food and then hesitated over a bead refined from the Eerie’s food.

  • Yang Yong used bone whips to pull Cao Xianming free, and Cao identified a route for the group to escape the pursuing eerie women and bald men.
  • The group entered a glowing door to avoid being caught, finding themselves in a dark hidden space where Mang Dabiao and the convoy members had been trapped for about half a day.
  • Cao Xianming’s Data Model and analytical abilities recovered, so Yang Yong recounted everything the group had experienced in the Eerie Domain.
  • Cao Xianming asked for food, and Yang Yong gave him instant noodles and a blood bead refined from the Eerie’s food.
  • Cao Xianming nearly threw the bead away in disgust, but Yang Yong’s next words made him clutch it tightly.

Ch. 160Ascension?

Yang Yong and Cao Xianming discovered that strange blood beads could empower Transcendents and awaken ordinary people, then explored the fog-filled space beyond the light gate and found coded markings across its floor. Cao Xianming concluded that the space was part of an illusion formation built with the eerie, most likely to enable someone to ascend by leaving the world.

  • Yang Yong showed Cao Xianming that Xiao Xuan had awakened the Fierce-Eyed Guanyin combat sequence, and he revealed that he had refined about a hundred strange blood beads.
  • Cao Xianming analyzed a blood bead and confirmed that it safely increased a Transcendent’s supernatural power or could awaken sequence transcendence in an ordinary person, though excessive consumption could make an ordinary person’s body explode.
  • Yang Yong asked Cao Xianming to analyze the eerie traces and anomalies, then explored the fog-filled space with Zheng Xiaofeng and Xiao Xuan using a Positioning Pillar and tethering whips.
  • Yang Yong found strings of numbers carved into the concrete floor, copied the legible codes into a notebook, and discovered that Mang Dabiao’s group had trampled some of them.
  • Cao Xianming concluded that the space was a grand illusion formation made with the eerie, and calculated that it had a ninety percent chance of being designed to help someone leave the world through ascension.

Ch. 161The Buddhist Cultivator Society

Cao Xianming deciphered warnings showing that the underground world was a Buddhist array where people were eaten and their emotions and desires extracted, then identified a hidden passage to a sealed chamber. After reading the notebook found there, he began explaining the underground world's origins and revealed that the Buddhist Cultivator Society had prepared for the apocalypse before it erupted.

  • Yang Yong gave Cao Xianming the notebook of binary code, and Cao translated its warnings: the inhabitants ate people, extracted their seven emotions and six desires, and worked with the Eerie.
  • Cao Xianming deduced that an Underground Architect Sequence-bearer had sacrificed himself to stabilize a small space rather than return to the mad underground world.
  • Yang Yong, Zheng Xiaofeng, and Xiao Xuan struck three points together, revealing a hidden passage, and entered it after Cao Xianming checked for danger.
  • Yang Yong used his bone whip to retrieve a sealing box from the chamber's skeleton and found an ordinary notebook inside.
  • Cao Xianming read the notebook and explained that secret organizations had prepared for the apocalypse in advance, including one called the Buddhist Cultivator Society.

Ch. 162How Could He Unseal the Heavenly Dragon Slash and the Two-Yang God-Sealing Banner?

Cao Xianming explained how the Buddhist Cultivator Society split, then collaborated with the Eerie to trap survivors and drain their emotions in an underground world. With Wang Ying still trapped in an arena, Yang Yong resolved to rescue her and realized he might be able to unseal his Curios by using the underground world's rules.

  • Cao Xianming revealed that the Buddhist Cultivator Society had created a Seven Emotions Passage, then joined the Eerie and built illusion domains to drain survivors' emotions and feed their bodies to the Eerie.
  • A distraught survivor broke down after hearing the truth, and Mang Dabiao knocked him unconscious before urging Yang Yong to continue.
  • Yang Yong insisted that the group rescue Wang Ying before her anger was drained, and Cao Xianming focused his deductions on the arena trapping her.
  • Yang Yong studied the Cave Assault Squad's notebook and recognized that he was unusually resistant to the underground formation's emotional influence.
  • Yang Yong noticed that Mang Dabiao's Evil-Slaying Blade worked because it had been forged underground, and he concluded that he could use the world's rules to unseal the Heavenly Dragon Slash.

Ch. 163A Way to Resist the Extraction of the Seven Emotions and Six Desires?

Yang Yong reforged the Heavenly Dragon Slash and Two-Yang God-Sealing Banner to regain control of them, then found a method to resist the extraction of the seven emotions and six desires on a memory card. The method required him to draw an intricate talisman using his blood essence, leaving him facing a dangerous and difficult task.

  • Yang Yong used the Ten-Thousand-Forging Primordial Furnace to reforge the Heavenly Dragon Slash and Two-Yang God-Sealing Banner, restoring his control over both curios.
  • Yang Yong found no way to resist the extraction of the seven emotions and six desires in his notes, so he fed the useless sealing box to the furnace, which turned it into a memory card.
  • Cao Xianming said he had made progress deducing the Beast Arena but was not ready to share his conclusions, and he admitted that his iPad was left in the car.
  • Zhuo Fujiao offered Yang Yong her phone, whose screensaver was an explicit photo of herself, and he used it to open the memory card.
  • Yang Yong found a document titled "How to Use Blood Spirit Power?" and discovered that he could resist the extraction by using his blood essence to draw a personal talisman.

Ch. 164Smiling Buddha Shirt

Yang Yong forged Semi-Curio shirts that could shield the convoy members from the force extracting the seven emotions, then Cao Xianming assigned them to investigate the eerie underground world. The group set out to learn its rules and find other convoy members trapped in its domains.

  • Yang Yong asked Mang Dabiao to copy a formation that could protect clothing from the extraction of the seven emotions' power.
  • Yang Yong's first attempt to forge ordinary clothes failed, consuming the garments while refining the Eerie blood into Curio Material.
  • Yang Yong forged shirts from a painted-skin ghost's life-bound painted skin, producing Semi-Curios embroidered with smiling Buddhas.
  • The group bound the shirts with drops of blood essence and found that the garments fitted them automatically and could shield them from the extraction force.
  • Cao Xianming told the group to investigate the underground world's domains and search for other Survival Convoy members, prompting worries about the danger.

Ch. 165321 Consecutive Wins!

Cao Xianming organized a rescue effort in the Cave Space and took Yang Yong and Zheng Xiaofeng to investigate the Beast Arena. Wang Ying won her 321st match, but her next opponent was a Two-Headed Great Snake whose appearance unsettled Yang Yong.

  • Cao Xianming gave the survivors cloth scraps that could open Light Gates and sent Mang Dabiao and Xiao Xuan to search the remaining fields and rescue convoy members.
  • Cao Xianming, Yang Yong, and Zheng Xiaofeng entered the Beast Arena to test Cao Xianming’s theory about the field.
  • Wang Ying defeated her identical opponent with her Black Gold Bone Blade, earning 321 consecutive wins.
  • The Beast Arena produced a counterfeit Two-Headed Great Snake, and Yang Yong recognized it as the creature that had once chased him.
  • Wang Ying cornered the snake, which stopped fleeing and swung its tail at her.

Ch. 166Sister Ying, Captain Cao wants you to lose on purpose

Cao Xianming figured out how the Beast Arena worked and had Wang Ying lose on purpose so she would be teleported to another domain. As Yang Yong searched for her, he realized she might be in the tallest building and encountered a frightening presence in its stairwell.

  • Cao Xianming told Zheng Xiaofeng that Wang Ying could leave the Beast Arena by deliberately losing a match, then instructed Zheng to enter and take her place.
  • Zheng Xiaofeng passed Cao Xianming's message to Wang Ying, who let a mantis-like Eerie wound her and was teleported away after her defeat.
  • Zheng Xiaofeng fought a featureless Eerie and the scissors woman in white, losing to the latter and being teleported away.
  • Cao Xianming warned that the scissors woman in white would be a major threat outside the arena, then used a scrap of cloth to open a portal and leave.
  • Yang Yong searched the domains for Wang Ying, then realized Wang Qian and Wang Ying might still be in the tallest building and hurried there.
  • Yang Yong climbed the dark stairwell, where scarlet blood began seeping from the walls.

Ch. 167The Survival Convoy, Everyone Accounted For

Yang Yong fought his way upstairs and rescued Wang Ying and Wang Qian from a group of bald men before leading them back to the underground cavern. There, he found every member of the Survival Convoy gathered, and the group prepared to locate their vehicles and escape.

  • Yang Yong battled through floors of Eerie that tried to block his path, refining them in his ten-thousand-forging primordial furnace as he climbed.
  • Yang Yong found Wang Ying and Wang Qian surrounded by bald men, and Wang Ying cut down three attackers with a paper blade.
  • Yang Yong pinned the remaining attackers with the Heavenly Dragon Slash and helped Wang Ying and Wang Qian flee down the stairs.
  • The Red-Clothed Female Ghost was injured by the bald men's golden swastika defenses, while the White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost stopped some pursuers with her love letters.
  • Yang Yong led Wang Ying and Wang Qian through a gate of light into the underground cavern, where Mang Dabiao had gathered every member of the Survival Convoy, including Zheng Xiaofeng, Hu Xian'er, and Huang Xiaojuan.

Ch. 168Bone Dagger

Cao Xianming warned Yang Yong and the others that the Buddhist Cultivator Society had discovered them and that their chance of winning was only 20 percent. As the group prepared and waited for Cao Xianming to calculate their next move, Yang Yong forged more than six hundred bone daggers for the Survival Convoy, then noticed Mang Dabiao's forehead mark and got a new idea.

  • Lao Zhang and Xiao Ma organized the survivors as Yang Yong and the Sequence Transcendents gathered to regroup.
  • Cao Xianming revealed that the Buddhist Cultivator Society had found them, had eyes everywhere outside, and left them with only a 20 percent chance of victory.
  • Cao Xianming warned that the Society had existed before the apocalypse and might possess practitioners stronger than Sequence Three.
  • While Cao Xianming ran calculations, Wang Ying, Zheng Xiaofeng, Xiao Xuan, Mang Dabiao, and Hu Xian'er trained or honed their abilities.
  • Yang Yong used the Ten-Thousand-Forging Primordial Furnace to turn Eerie ribs into more than six hundred sharp bone daggers for the Survival Convoy.
  • Yang Yong noticed the mark on Mang Dabiao's forehead and came up with a new idea.

Ch. 169Armed to the teeth

Yang Yong forged Bone Daggers that could suppress Eeries and store their energy, then armed the Survival Convoy and himself with new Semi-Curio equipment. Cao Xianming finished his deductions and revealed a map of the underground world marked with red and black dots.

  • Yang Yong reforged six hundred Bone Daggers with a rune that kept them under his authority and let them absorb Eerie energy.
  • Yang Yong gave Lao Zhang, Xiao Ma, and Old Zhao Bone Daggers to distribute to the Survival Convoy as temporary loans.
  • Yang Yong forged a shrinking turtle-shell shield for Zheng Xiaofeng and made a complete set of Semi-Curio equipment for himself.
  • Cao Xianming completed his deductions and displayed a map of the underground world with thirteen connected regions.
  • Cao Xianming tapped the map, causing dense red and black dots to appear as Yang Yong wondered what they meant.

Ch. 170Powerhouses above Sequence Four

Cao Xianming revealed that the Buddhist Cultivator Society and Eerie had surrounded the underground world, including a possible Sequence Four-or-higher powerhouse, and devised a desperate escape plan. He planned to send the Red-and-White Twin Fiends to check whether the convoy’s vehicles remained in the central building’s underground garage.

  • Cao Xianming showed Yang Yong and the survivors a map of the surrounding forces and estimated that the largest Buddhist Cultivator Society presence was Sequence Four or possibly Sequence Five.
  • The survivors despaired at the encirclement, while Yang Yong gripped the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace and prepared to fight back.
  • Cao Xianming revealed that their best chance was to escape in a week by reaching a place to the southeast, and that they first needed to recover their vehicles.
  • Cao Xianming calculated that the convoy was likely in the central building’s underground parking garage, but the group could not get outside to check.
  • Yang Yong summoned the Red-and-White Twin Fiends from the Two-Yang God-Sealing Banner, and Cao Xianming prepared to send them to inspect the garage.

Ch. 171"White Porridge Senior"

Yang Yong used the Red-Clothed Female Ghost to scout the underground parking garage and found the Survival Convoy’s vehicles and most of their supplies intact, though Buddhist Cultivator Society members were gradually looting other vehicles. After retrieving Cao Xianming’s iPad, the survivors competed to tell melodramatic romance stories for a bowl of rice, and Zhuo Fujiao’s story activated it.

  • Yang Yong sent the Red-Clothed Female Ghost into the central building and shared her vision as she passed through a terrifying underground world packed with Eerie.
  • The Red-Clothed Female Ghost reached the parking garage, where Buddhist Cultivator Society members searched vehicles and removed supplies in batches.
  • Yang Yong confirmed the Survival Convoy’s vehicles and supplies were mostly undamaged, and found Cao Xianming’s iPad on the passenger seat.
  • A monk noticed the Red-Clothed Female Ghost but mistook her for a wandering spirit and waved her away.
  • Yang Yong had the Red-Clothed Female Ghost retrieve the iPad and return through a light gate; Cao Xianming then offered a bowl of rice to anyone who could activate it with a melodramatic romance story.
  • Zhuo Fujiao told “White Porridge Senior,” and the iPad lit up with a clapping emoji, indicating it had activated.

Ch. 172One punch

Cao Xianming used the iPad to plan the Survival Convoy’s escape from the Buddhist Cultivator Society’s underground world, while Xiao Xuan’s punch accidentally enraged the Kraken and plunged the prison into chaos. With the Society distracted, the convoy raced toward the formation’s edge, where Yang Yong threw the Nine Nether Yuanchen White Bone Ring into the black mist to break through.

  • Cao Xianming watched a recording of a Buddhist Cultivator Society expert crushing a Transcendent and warned the convoy that their plan depended on avoiding a direct fight.
  • After seven days of planning, Cao Xianming had Xiao Xuan punch through a Light Gate, unknowingly striking the Kraken at the underground world’s core.
  • The enraged Kraken’s roar shattered the field, freeing the Society’s captives and triggering a rampage by the Eerie as Buddhist Cultivator Society experts confronted it.
  • Cao Xianming led the Survival Convoy out of the Central Building’s underground parking garage while the Society was occupied.
  • Yang Yong raised the Nine Nether Yuanchen White Bone Ring as Mang Dabiao drove toward the formation’s edge, then threw the ring into the black mist at Cao Xianming’s signal.

Ch. 173Time for a high-speed plunge?

Yang Yong led the Survival Convoy out of the underground world, but with the Buddhist Cultivator Society’s forces closing in, Cao Xianming ordered everyone up an isolated mountain road. Near the summit, Cao recognized signs of “Number Nine” and urged the convoy forward, though the road ended at a sheer cliff.

  • Yang Yong used the White Bone Ring to break the spatial barrier and led the Survival Convoy out as the octopus Eerie kept the Buddhist Cultivator Society’s Sequence 5 powerhouse from pursuing them.
  • The Society’s Transcendents chased the convoy, and Cao Xianming directed the lead vehicles up a lone mountain road despite Yang Yong’s doubts.
  • Several vehicles fled instead, but Yang Yong and the tanker truck’s two drivers chose to follow Cao up the mountain.
  • Cao studied his Data Model and insisted its calculations promised a way out, though he did not know what it was.
  • Near the summit, Cao heard camel bells and smelled desert wind, recognized “Number Nine,” and ordered everyone to keep going toward the cliff.

Ch. 174Fuck... I've Turned into Danzō...

Cao Xianming led the convoy over a three-hundred-meter cliff to escape the Buddhist Cultivator Society, while its Sequence Five attacked the vehicles with a giant golden palm. Yang Yong and the other Sequence Transcendents broke the attack, but Yang Yong's left arm became covered in eerie eyeballs, and the Sequence Five prepared another strike.

  • Cao Xianming ordered the convoy to drive off the cliff, and Xiao Ma, Wang Ying, Zheng Xiaofeng, Old Zhao, and a child followed his lead.
  • Mang Dabiao drove his pickup off the cliff, while the tanker truck and several vehicles hesitated as the Buddhist Cultivator Society reached the summit.
  • The Society's Sequence Five struck the convoy with a giant golden palm, and Wang Ying, Zheng Xiaofeng, and Yang Yong tried to stop it.
  • Yang Yong used the Nine Nether Yuanchen White Bone Ring to shatter the palm, but eerie eyeballs spread across his left arm before the ring suppressed them.
  • The Sequence Five raised his hand again and prepared a series of further palm strikes.

Ch. 175Rank 009, the Mirage Caravan

The Survival Convoy escaped the Buddhist Cultivator Society by entering Curio No. 009, the Mirage Caravan, which appeared as they fell from a cliff. As the caravan traveled through shifting reality and illusion, Yang Yong discovered its trading panels and a clone offered for an enormous price.

  • Cao Xianming’s convoy landed safely in a desert mirage and drove away from the Sequence Five’s palm strikes.
  • The Sequence Five ordered his followers to investigate the Mirage Caravan, while survivors who had hesitated regretted not following Cao Xianming.
  • Cao Xianming explained that he had recognized the caravan only after hearing camel bells and warned everyone to stay close to it.
  • Yang Yong saw that the world became increasingly illusory beyond the caravan and learned that the caravan offered trades.
  • Yang Yong inspected a camel’s wares, found a clone with a 97% chance of awakening Sequence Transcendence, and learned its price was one million units of supernatural power.
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