Chapter Summaries

The convoy’s journey through the Eerie Desert grew more dangerous as waterborne figures appeared in greater numbers and one survivor died after making eye contact with an Eerie. When the figures attacked the convoy that night, Yang Yong and Mang Dabiao fought back with flames and the Evil-Slaying Blade.

• Cao Xianming’s deductions guided the convoy across the desert for more than ten days, while Eerie figures appeared more often each night.
• An Eerie made a survivor jump from a bus, and Hu Xian’er and Wang Ying rescued him from its hair, but venomous creatures killed him.
• Cao Xianming ordered the convoy not to look at the Eerie, approach the water, or leave their vehicles, so the survivors blocked the windows.
• More than a hundred Eerie attacked at night, fighting Wang Ying and dragging a bus toward the water with their hair.
• Yang Yong burned the hair with the Ten-Thousand-Forging Primordial Furnace, and Mang Dabiao used the Evil-Slaying Blade to set the Eerie’s hair ablaze.

Yang Yong’s convoy remained trapped in a desert that flooded each night, surrounded by growing numbers of Jinpo while they waited for Cao Xianming’s divined chance to escape. With no sign of that opportunity, Yang Yong began forging simple amphibious fittings for the vehicles, leaving the convoy to wonder what he was making.

• Cao Xianming divined that the convoy should hold its position for three days, and said Yang Yong and Mang Dabiao could use fire and the Evil-Slaying Blade against the Jinpo.
• The convoy endured another night of standoff, then stayed in place while the Transcendents rested and the night watch was organized.
• When the desert flooded again, Yang Yong saw even more Jinpo rise from the water, though they did not attack.
• Yang Yong decided to prepare a backup escape plan by converting the vehicles into amphibious ones, and asked Mang Dabiao and Hu Xian'er for help.
• Mang Dabiao and Hu Xian'er produced a simplified floating design, and Yang Yong began forging its fittings from his stored materials.

Yang Yong’s Survival Convoy escaped a vast swarm of Forbidden Grannies by following a mysterious Drifting Boat Fleet across Thousand Island Lake. After the fleet’s mimicry shield hid them from the monsters, Yang Yong grew wary when Cao Xianming failed to answer over the radio and an eerie warning sounded.

• Yang Yong forged amphibious Magical Artifacts, allowing the Survival Convoy’s vehicles to travel across water.
• More than a thousand Forbidden Grannies attacked the convoy, overwhelming its defenses until Mang Dabiao’s Evil-Slaying Blade cleared a path.
• Cao Xianming divined that the convoy should head south, and the vehicles followed his moving guidance across the lake.
• The convoy found a brightly lit Drifting Boat Fleet, endured a cannon attack, and joined the fleet’s rear after Wang Ying destroyed a shell.
• A mysterious energy concealed the convoy from the Forbidden Grannies, which then disappeared beneath the water.
• Yang Yong questioned Cao Xianming over the radio, but received no reply until a quiet voice warned, “Shh-!”

Yang Yong and the Survival Convoy survived a night surrounded by gigantic monsters beneath Thousand Island Lake, then met a strange fishing fleet whose members described a government-linked survivor settlement. Cao Xianming decided they should follow the fleet there after its final fishing trip.

• Yang Yong saw countless mountain-sized Sea King-like creatures swimming beneath the water and realized the lake might connect to another world.
• Hu Xian'er used a Charm Technique to put the ordinary passengers to sleep while the convoy drifted silently through the night.
• Near dawn, the fleet stopped at high ground, and Cao Xianming communicated with its strangely dressed crew through writing and gestures.
• The crew explained that a survivor settlement with government ties existed deep in the desert, and Cao Xianming proposed following them.
• Yang Yong accepted that the convoy had nowhere else to go, and Cao Xianming said they would follow the fleet after its final fishing trip.

Yang Yong and the Survival Convoy discovered that the mysterious fleet was heading toward the water column, which Cao Xianming believed led to an exit in the sky. After strange ships descended from the clouds, the convoy voted unanimously to board them and head to the Sky Base.

• At night, the water column erupted again, and Yang Yong noticed the fleet was heading toward it.
• Cao Xianming explained that going underground would mean certain death, while the sky offered a slim chance of escape.
• A flying bank of clouds arrived over the fleet, and Yang Yong saw people moving above the clouds.
• Ships descended from the clouds, each carried beneath a giant octopus, while Cao Xianming tried to divine what was happening.
• A fleet member told Cao Xianming that their superiors would take the refugees to the Sky Base the next day and ordered them to load their vehicles onto the lead ship.
• Cao Xianming warned that the Sky Base might still be lying, but Wang Ying, Xiao Xuan, Zheng Xiaofeng, Yang Yong, and Cao Xianming all chose to go.

The Survival Convoy boarded a Sky Base ship and learned that it would ride a vast water column into the clouds. Under Captain Yu Gang’s command, the ship survived a dangerous ascent and continued toward the sky above the clouds.

• The convoy's vehicles were chained to the ship, and Cao Xianming told everyone that it would sail up the water column and that they had to stay inside.
• Yang Yong and the others saw Ghost Mother No. 036, and Mang Dabiao explained that the Eerie helped the fleet disguise its aura from other Eerie.
• Captain Yu Gang introduced himself, explained Sky Base's origins and Eerie research, and said Commander Ye had sent him to bring the convoy to the base.
• Yu Gang showed the group the ship's sturdy cabins and explained that they were built to withstand the water column's impact.
• At dusk, Yu Gang ordered the crew to align the ship with the water column, and it began its perilous ascent.
• The ship struck an unknown obstruction and shuddered, but Yu Gang kept it balanced until it broke through and continued upward past mangled monstrous fish.

Yang Yong and the others reached Sky Base, where its rigid rules and unsettling residents made the place seem more like a prison than a refuge. During registration, Yang Yong used the false name Li Zhi, and the machine short-circuited when he placed his cloth-covered hand on the scanner.

• The ship rose through the water and arrived beside Sky Base, where receptionist 073 announced that the newcomers would be registered and their belongings centrally allocated.
• Wang Ying objected to handing over their belongings, but Cao Xianming stopped her when he noticed armed guards watching them.
• 073 led the group across the cloud-top base, through its silent corridors, and into a control room for registration.
• Yang Yong entered the name Li Zhi instead of his real name and pressed his cloth-covered left hand to the scanner.
• The registration machine sparked, beeped, and short-circuited, leaving Yang Yong and the others startled.

Yang Yong and his companions settled into Sky Base, where they learned that abilities would be tested and points would replace money. After cleaning up and receiving the rules for earning points, Cao Xianming asked Cook 009 whether she knew Commander Ye.

• 073 registered Yang Yong under the number 9527 and led the newcomers to the dormitories, separating Transcendents from ordinary people and women from men.
• The guide told Yang Yong and the others to rest before having their abilities tested the next morning.
• Yang Yong asked Cao Xianming and Mang Dabiao what they knew about Sky Base, but neither could uncover anything, and the group concluded they should obey its rules for now.
• Yang Yong inspected a combat uniform by processing it in his furnace, then he and the others showered, groomed themselves, and changed into clean uniforms.
• Cook 009 offered the newcomers one free meal and explained that they would need points for later meals, which residents could earn through missions or work.
• Cao Xianming asked Cook 009 whether she knew Commander Ye.

Yang Yong and the other newcomers learned that Sky Base had 303 Sequence Transcendents, including a Sequence Five, and that their instructor Zhang Cizhen was a Sequence Four. Zhang revealed that Sky Base predated the apocalypse and possessed a complete cultivation system from Sequence One to Sequence Five, leaving the newcomers eager to hear more.

• Cook 009 told Yang Yong and his companions that Commander Ye Fan led Sky Base and commanded 300 Sequence Transcendents.
• The next morning, staff member 083 took the newcomers to a testing hall to assess their supernatural abilities.
• Yang Yong reunited with Wang Ying, Xiao Xuan, and Huang Xiaojuan, and learned that they had been treated well.
• Zhang Cizhen introduced herself as the newcomers' instructor and subdued the protesting crowd with her overwhelming aura.
• Zhang Cizhen revealed she was a Sequence Four-City-Destroyer and the weakest Sequence Transcendent in Sky Base, which had 303 Sequence Transcendents and a Sequence Five at its highest rank.
• Zhang Cizhen explained that Sky Base existed before the apocalypse and had a mature cultivation system for advancing from Sequence One to Sequence Five.

Zhang Cizhen introduced the Sky Base’s points system, Sequence advancement methods, and missions, while Yang Yong and the others learned the costs of living there. The group split over whether to join, and Yang Yong focused on the exploration missions as a way to earn points.

• Zhang Cizhen explained that residents could earn points through missions and redeem them for Sequence advancement, and Cao Xianming confirmed they were free to leave if they paid for transport.
• The Transcendents registered their abilities, with Yang Yong and Cao Xianming concealing some information, and no one initially volunteered for the base’s combat teams.
• Cao Xianming joined the Sky Base, while Yang Yong and the others declined and were escorted to the residential area, where they learned nonmembers could not enter military zones.
• The group discovered that instant noodles cost 10 points while Huang Xiaojuan had only 2, and they realized they would need to take missions to avoid starving.
• Yang Yong checked the shop and found Sequence methods grew prohibitively expensive at higher levels, then turned to the mission board and examined the exploration missions.

Yang Yong entered the F-rank Warm Home instance and discovered that its rules kept him from leaving. When he attacked the ghostly housewife, she regenerated, while other Eerie gathered outside the house.

• Yang Yong chose the F-rank Warm Home mission and was transported into an eerie, ordinary-looking home.
• Yang Yong found that the front door would not open, apparently because of the Ghost Domain's rules.
• A middle-aged female ghost offered Yang Yong a bowl containing a dead rat and urged him to drink it.
• Yang Yong attacked the female ghost with his furnace, smashing her into the floor.
• The female ghost regenerated unharmed as other Eerie gathered outside and howled for Yang Yong's death.

Yang Yong subdued the Eerie in the house and discovered that the toys in the little girl’s room held dense ghostly energy. After collecting them and opening the front door to explore the Soul Realm, he came face-to-face with a ghost standing inches away.

• Yang Yong summoned the Red-and-White Twin Fiends, suppressed the middle-aged woman Eerie, and sealed it after its memories vanished when he asked about the Soul Realm.
• The Red-and-White Twin Fiends dragged out a bald, middle-aged ghost and the Little Girl Eerie, but both lost their memories when Yang Yong questioned them about the Soul Realm.
• Yang Yong searched the bedrooms and found that the little girl’s toys were filled with ghostly energy, then placed the toys in his Nine Nether Yuanchen White Bone Ring.
• Yang Yong opened the front door to investigate the Soul Realm and found a pale, bloodless face pressed almost against his own.

Yang Yong returned from a Soul Realm dungeon and discovered that time passed faster there, then spent three days clearing F-rank dungeons. Cao Xianming secretly gave him cultivation methods and warned that Sky Base was conducting experiments on people, leaving Yang Yong facing a deadly secret.

• Yang Yong escaped the Soul Realm dungeon with the doll and Eerie he had captured, and found that his points had risen to 1010.
• Yang Yong learned from Mang Dabiao that three hours had passed in the real world during his brief dungeon run.
• Yang Yong farmed F-rank dungeons for three days until they stopped appearing.
• Cao Xianming visited Yang Yong, disabled the room's surveillance, and revealed that he was Commander Ye's secretary.
• Cao Xianming gave Yang Yong the complete cultivation methods for Sequences 1 through 3 and urged him to reunite their convoy companions.
• Cao Xianming warned Yang Yong that Sky Base was experimenting on people.

Cao Xianming warned Yang Yong that the Sky Base’s New Faction was conducting Eerie symbiosis experiments, so Yang Yong organized an escape plan with Wang Ying while secretly gathering strength and supplies. His rapid dungeon clears and theft of the convoy drew the attention of the base’s leaders, who identified him as a potential experimental subject.

• Cao Xianming explained the Sky Base’s factional conflict and Eerie symbiosis experiments, then gave Yang Yong a token and a plan to hide the convoy’s vehicles and prepare an escape.
• Yang Yong told Wang Ying about the experiments and escape plan, and she agreed to contact the others from their convoy.
• Yang Yong repeatedly cleared F-rank and E-rank dungeons, monopolizing them and attracting anger from other Transcendents.
• Yang Yong used Cao Xianming’s token to enter the restricted quartermaster area and stored the entire Survival Convoy in the Nine Nether Yuanchen White Bone Ring, whose space had expanded after devouring Eerie.
• Sky Base officers showed Elder Mu surveillance footage of Yang Yong taking the convoy and suggested that he might be a suitable experimental subject.

Elder Mu recognized the Eerie Eye in Yang Yong’s video and ordered him brought to the laboratory, while Yang Yong continued farming dungeons with his three ghost companions. After returning from an E-Rank dungeon, Yang Yong was forcibly conscripted into the Wolf Warriors Brigade and taken toward the Sky Base’s military-controlled zone.

• Elder Mu spotted the High-Level Eerie Eye in the video and ordered officers to bring the man identified as Li Zhi to the laboratory.
• Yang Yong made the Little Girl Eerie his Third Main Soul and took her along to farm dungeons, where she turned most enemies into Weird Artifact dolls.
• The Little Girl Eerie transformed the hotel dungeon’s elderly boss into a doll, but he broke free before the Red-Clothed Female Ghost and White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost defeated him.
• Yang Yong collected three dolls and a large amount of ghost essence, then returned to his dorm room.
• An officer told Yang Yong, still identified as 9527 and Li Zhi, that he had been conscripted into the Wolf Warriors Brigade.
• Two Sequence Transcendents held Yang Yong at gunpoint as he accepted his new identity card and was escorted toward the military-controlled zone.

Yang Yong was taken to Elder Mu’s laboratory, where his Evil Eye-covered arm was exposed and he was selected for experiments. The Sky Base began removing his eyes to empower exotic beasts, while a Sequence 5 powerhouse kept him under guard.

• Armed men escorted Yang Yong to a restricted laboratory, where Elder Mu asked to examine his left hand.
• Yang Yong revealed an arm covered in Evil Eyes, and two guards who met their gaze collapsed under their influence.
• Elder Mu declared Yang Yong was the one they needed, and he and a young officer ordered Yang Yong detained for experiments.
• Elder Mu’s team repeatedly removed Evil Eyes from Yang Yong’s arm and transplanted them into exotic beasts, greatly increasing their strength.
• Yang Yong’s resistance was crushed by a Sequence 5 powerhouse, who began guarding him continuously as the experiments continued.

Yang Yong’s captivity at Sky Base let him grow stronger while he waited for the Evil Eyes’ owner to retaliate, but Sky Base’s experiments produced powerful abilities before that happened. When crow-like Eerie attacked the base, two transplant recipients revealed their powers, though the rest of Sky Base remained in danger.

• Sky Base supplied Yang Yong with rare foods, and he used the nourishment to open thirteen apertures while secretly communicating with Mang Dabiao and learning that Cao Xianming had calculated a 100% symbiosis rate for Evil Eyes.
• Yang Yong expected the Evil Eyes’ owner to respond to the transplants, but Sky Base moved into the mountains and disturbed a flock of crow-like Eerie that attacked the base.
• The crow Eerie killed survivors and resisted gunfire, while Sky Base’s Sequence Transcendents failed to respond because they were inside the laboratory.
• A bandaged man opened an Evil Eye transplanted between his brows and used it to make the crow Eerie attack one another.
• A woman revealed an Evil Eye transplanted into her palm and used it to burn charging crow Eerie to ash.

Yang Yong watched the Sky Base embrace Evil Eye transplants, while he anticipated the catastrophe they would unleash. After an ordinary survivor became a Transcendent through transplantation, the base launched the mass-recruitment God's Eye Plan, and Yang Yong concluded the base was beyond saving.

• Sky Base Transcendents used transplanted Evil Eyes to wipe out the crow Eerie without casualties, prompting the neutral brigade to support the experiments.
• Ye Fan asked Cao Xianming whether he would get an Evil Eye transplant, and Cao stalled while secretly calculating when to escape.
• Yang Yong continued being harvested in the laboratory as the Evil Eyes’ owner appeared to be nearing the end of its patience.
• Three days later, an ordinary survivor successfully entered the lowest Eerie symbiosis sequence after receiving an Evil Eye transplant.
• The Sky Base announced the God's Eye Plan, promising ordinary people a chance to become Transcendents through transplantation.
• Yang Yong saw that he could not close the recruitment advertisement until its countdown ended and decided the Sky Base was beyond saving.

Yang Yong watched the Sky Base lure ordinary people into becoming Eerie Symbiosis Sequence Transcendents, knowing the God's Eye implants concealed a deadly trap. At the Survival Convoy's temporary base, Cao Xianming gathered the survivors as the public demonstrations persuaded ordinary people that the implants could make them Transcendents in just three days.

• Yang Yong endured another eye-removal surgery, staying conscious so he could resist if the operation turned against him.
• Doctor Mu Tao watched test subjects receive God's Eye implants and successfully activate Sequence powers, while strange eyeballs writhed inside his own eyes.
• Cao Xianming used his Military ID Card's highest authorization to shut down dormitory surveillance and gather the surviving convoy members at their temporary base.
• Lao Zhang recalled how Sky Base officials demonstrated a God's Eye user's power by shrinking a Mutant Beast, crushing it, and watching it return to its original form minutes later.
• A spectator recognized the demonstrator as a former Hunting Team coworker who had been an ordinary person just three days earlier, shocking the crowd.

The Evil Eye Plan drove Sky Base’s ordinary people into a frenzy, while Cao Xianming prepared the Survival Convoy to escape amid the coming chaos. Yang Yong watched the bidding and violence from the laboratory, growing colder as he neared Sequence Two and anticipated the base’s destruction.

• Ten people displayed transplanted Evil Eyes, prompting crowds to rush the registration desk, while Lao Zhang, Xiao Ma, and Lao Zhao tried and failed to dissuade them.
• Cao Xianming gathered the remaining Survival Convoy members, explained that they would escape that night, and ordered them to rendezvous at the harbor and seize a ship using a Balloon Octopus.
• Sky Base leaders auctioned the sixty daily Evil Eye transplant slots, and residents bid supplies, food, weapons, and equipment amid mounting violence.
• Yang Yong watched the base’s frenzy from the laboratory and hoped people would discover the transplants brought corruption rather than transcendence.
• As Yang Yong approached Sequence Two, he felt his emotions fading and expected fewer than one in a thousand people to survive Sky Base’s collapse.