Chapter Summaries

Yang Yong defeated the red-robed ghost after a prolonged fight, but a new wave of voices outside the vehicle threatened the survivors. The iron token transformed into the One-Yang God-Sealing Banner, whose legend suggested Yang Yong might one day escape this world.

• The red-robed ghost killed another survivor as Yang Yong used the Little Golden Flood Dragon Scissors to hold her off.
• The ghost lunged at Yang Yong, but he struck her with the scissors, and a black hole swallowed her and the iron token.
• After the black hole closed, Yang Yong found his throat cut and ordered the survivors to stay silent as more voices called from outside.
• The iron token fell out as a small banner, and Yang Yong learned it could seal supernatural entities and was a fragment of the Chaos Warship.
• Yang Yong wondered whether gathering the Chaos Warship's components could let him return to his original world.

Yang Yong survived the night’s attack by the Red-Clothed Female Ghost and discovered that blood moon energy had awakened qi induction in him. At a meeting, Cao Xianming analyzed the ghost with his newly advanced Data Analyst Sequence 2 ability and revealed detailed information about her.

• Yang Yong kept watch over the survivors until dawn, then rested after Cao Xianming called a stop to the convoy.
• After waking, Yang Yong noticed his senses and strength had improved and found a wisp of blood moon energy in his dantian.
• Yang Yong cultivated for two hours and sensed that he had reached qi induction, the first step of cultivation.
• Xiao Ma summoned Yang Yong to a meeting with Cao Xianming, Wang Ying, and Zheng Xiaofeng, where Yang Yong recounted his battle with the Red-Clothed Female Ghost.
• Cao Xianming announced that he had advanced to Data Analyst Sequence 2: Analyst and used a Light Screen to display the Red-Clothed Female Ghost’s abilities and nature.

Cao Xianming explained that the convoy was traveling through a small independent world where nights were dangerous, and Yang Yong was unable to upgrade Wang Ying’s saber because his ability was recharging. As the convoy drove into the night, an eerie reached toward two survivors who had opened a bus window.

• Cao Xianming showed the group a model of their small world and warned them to travel at night, avoid answering or obeying eerie voices, and keep eeries out of their vehicles.
• Wang Ying asked Yang Yong to upgrade her Blood-Drinking Mad Saber using a Man-Eating Black Goat leg bone, but Yang Yong explained that his ability was unavailable until it recovered.
• Wang Ying agreed to wait, and the convoy set off after dark following Cao Xianming’s planned route.
• Two survivors opened a bus window to chat in the dark, while a pale arm slowly reached toward them from outside.

Yang Yong and the survivors faced an attack by pale arms that crept through the darkness and dragged a passenger from the bus. After discovering the creatures seemed vulnerable to light, Yang Yong tested his theory and saw the arms swarm the windows when the lights went out.

• Yang Yong cultivated beneath the Blood Moon while pale arms climbed unnoticed along the bus.
• Rough terrain jolted Yang Yong from cultivation, and he spotted arms reaching through the windows.
• Yang Yong cut one arm with the Little Golden Flood Dragon Scissors, but other arms dragged a survivor outside.
• At Yang Yong's command, Old Zhao turned on the lights, and survivors crushed the severed arms and shut the windows.
• The arm remains melted under the lights, prompting Yang Yong to suspect the creatures feared light.
• Yang Yong ordered Old Zhao to turn off the lights, revealing pale arms covering every window and battering the glass.

Yang Yong used the One-Yang God-Sealing Banner to keep the Eerie away from the bus, then killed a survivor who blamed him for a woman’s death. After the convoy’s off-road vehicles disappeared into the darkness, he tried to keep the passengers calm while they waited for Captain Cao Xianming to return.

• Yang Yong realized that light repelled the pale arms and urged the survivors to gather beneath the bus lights.
• When the bus battery died and the arms broke a window, they dragged a woman outside and killed her.
• Yang Yong threw the One-Yang God-Sealing Banner, which restored the light and drove the arms away.
• The dead woman’s boyfriend accused Yang Yong of letting her die, and Yang Yong kicked him to death, warning the passengers not to sow unrest.
• Old Zhao told Yang Yong that the off-road vehicles had vanished, leaving the bus alone in the wilderness.
• Yang Yong ordered the passengers to be quiet and trusted that Captain Cao Xianming would return for him.

Yang Yong sent the Red-Clothed Female Ghost to find Cao Xianming, whose group was fleeing across the wilderness. Cao Xianming sent back instructions to head toward the Blood Moon, but Yang Yong could not see it in the dark; then a sudden change occurred.

• Yang Yong summoned the Red-Clothed Female Ghost and sent her with a note asking Cao Xianming what to do because the bus had fallen behind.
• Cao Xianming recognized the ghost as Yang Yong's messenger and sent a reply telling him to head in the direction the Blood Moon rose.
• Yang Yong received the note but could not see the Blood Moon through the darkness.
• Just as Yang Yong was about to lose his mind, a sudden change occurred.

Yang Yong led the bus through a Blood Moon zone where enormous trees attacked with their branches, and he used his artifacts to clear a path. After the trees’ shriek knocked out the other survivors, Yang Yong drove them out of the forest and onto a grassland, where he remained wary of hidden dangers.

• Yang Yong spotted the Blood Moon and ordered Old Zhao to drive toward it through a forest of towering trees with transparent leaves.
• The trees attacked the bus with their branches, so Yang Yong fought them off with the Little Golden Flood Dragon Scissors and the Red-Clothed Female Ghost.
• Yang Yong discovered that the Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace could absorb the trees and leaves, then had the scissors cut down trees to clear the way.
• A shriek from the forest knocked out Old Zhao and the survivors, but Yang Yong kept his senses and drove the bus out of the forest.
• Old Zhao recovered, and Yang Yong handed him the wheel as they entered a grassland and continued following the route Cao Xianming had calculated.

Yang Yong led the survivors through a night among the Other Shore Flowers, then learned their bus was nearly out of fuel. They found a ruined temple for shelter, where a veiled bridal statue triggered a strange vision in Yang Yong.

• Yang Yong warned the bus survivors to follow orders while he absorbed the Blood Moon's energy through the One-Yang God-Sealing Banner.
• The bus crossed a sea of Other Shore Flowers, which sank underground as dawn arrived, and Yang Yong fell asleep from exhaustion.
• Old Zhao told Yang Yong that the bus had only enough fuel for about thirty more kilometers.
• A survivor spotted a solitary building, and Yang Yong ordered Old Zhao to drive the convoy there.
• The survivors discovered the building was a ruined temple with a statue of a woman in a red bridal veil, and Yang Yong saw a vision of the veil lifting.

Yang Yong and the survivors became trapped in a looping road around a sinister ruined temple and searched for a way out. When the Blood Moon rose, Yang Yong realized the temple and its shadow formed a gigantic stone coffin, and suspected they had to enter it again.

• Yang Yong broke free from an illusion of a bridal woman calling him husband, then searched the temple with the survivors and found nothing useful.
• Yang Yong used the One-Yang God-Sealing Banner to move the bus downhill, but the road looped back to the temple and trapped them.
• Yang Yong tried turning the bus in different directions, but the temple reappeared each time, and he subdued a survivor who tried to flee.
• Yang Yong ordered everyone to search the wilderness for clues, but they found nothing before nightfall.
• Yang Yong saw the Blood Moon illuminate the temple and its shadow into the shape of an upright coffin, then recalled Old Cao's instruction to follow the Blood Moon.

Cao Xianming revealed that the convoy was trapped in a Small World and depended on Yang Yong to escape, while ordering his people to prepare for their chance. Yang Yong entered the Coffin Temple and was mistaken for a bridegroom by the ghostly wedding guests, then found his scissors could not harm the old man who seized him.

• Cao Xianming told Zheng Xiaofeng, Wang Ying, Xiao Ma, and the others that the Small World was a prison and Yang Yong was their best chance to escape.
• Cao Xianming ordered Xiao Ma to refuel the bus after the others entered the temple, assigned Zheng Xiaofeng to protect him, and told Wang Ying to save her strength for a final strike.
• Yang Yong approached the Coffin Temple at night and found its rotten daytime entrance transformed into a wedding-decorated doorway.
• Yang Yong opened the temple and saw more than a hundred ghostly guests feasting before they all turned to stare at him.
• An old man in burial clothes called Yang Yong the bridegroom, seized his wrist, and prompted Yang Yong to attack with the Little Golden Flood Dragon Scissors.
• Yang Yong's scissors struck the old man's arm but only produced sparks, leaving him shocked that they could not cut it.

Yang Yong was dragged into the Coffin Temple and forced through the rituals of a ghost wedding while the other survivors endured a haunted banquet. After bathing in red water and putting on a chilling groom's outfit, Yang Yong was led to the bride's room.

• The old man pulled Yang Yong and the survivors inside the Coffin Temple, and the doors slammed shut behind them.
• Matchmakers seized Yang Yong and led him through the temple, while ushers forced Old Zhao and the other survivors to sit at the banquet.
• Old Zhao and the survivors faced ghostly guests who pressed them to drink, while Yang Yong was taken to bathe and change.
• Yang Yong splashed himself with the red water, put on the groom's outfit, and was escorted to a door marked with a red double-happiness character.
• The maids told Yang Yong, "Bridegroom, please step inside..."

Yang Yong was trapped in a ghostly wedding room with a malevolent impostor bride and fought his way into the Coffin Temple’s looping corridors. After using the One-Yang God-Sealing Banner to drain the temple’s ghostly energy, he burst into a room and found the middle-aged woman who had helped corner him.

• Yang Yong discovered that the Little Golden Flood Dragon Scissors had regained their power after he was pushed into the wedding room.
• The bride rose and called Yang Yong her husband, and he recognized her as an impostor and attacked her with the scissors.
• Yang Yong sent the Red-Clothed Female Ghost to hold off the bride, then shattered the door and fled into the temple’s looping corridors.
• Yang Yong carved through the walls with the scissors as the wounded Red-Clothed Female Ghost returned to the One-Yang God-Sealing Banner.
• Yang Yong activated the banner to absorb the temple’s ghostly energy, then burst into a room where the middle-aged woman was giggling with another figure.

Yang Yong fought his way through the banquet hall, but the eerie bride stopped him and said she had killed him many times before. Deep inside the Coffin Temple, a woman awakened from a blood-colored coffin, sensed her husband’s return, and ordered Uncle Fu to bring him back.

• Yang Yong used the Red-Clothed Female Ghost to find his way back to the banquet hall, where the gathered Eerie turned on him and the convoy survivors tried to escape.
• Yang Yong unleashed the Little Golden Flood Dragon Scissors against the Eerie, while the Red-Clothed Female Ghost devoured the ghosts’ remains.
• The eerie bride appeared at the exit, effortlessly stopped Yang Yong’s attack, and restrained him with an invisible force.
• The eerie bride told Yang Yong they had met before and said she had killed him many times, leaving him wondering whether she meant his past lives.
• A woman in a red bridal gown awakened from a blood-colored coffin, told Uncle Fu that her husband had returned, and ordered him to bring Yang Yong back and kill anyone who stood in the way.

Yang Yong escaped the Coffin Temple after an old servant and his Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace disrupted the Eerie Bride’s attack and broke the temple’s illusory world. He and the survivors reached the wilderness, where the Blood Moon’s changed position showed they had passed the temple.

• The Eerie Bride tried to bite Yang Yong, but an old man from the clay statues appeared and struck her with a glowing jade bracelet, calling Yang Yong his young master.
• Yang Yong used the Little Golden Flood Dragon Scissors to break free, then fled the hall with Old Zhao and the other survivors, only to find another temple hall beyond its doors.
• The Eerie Bride caught up and attacked Yang Yong as he approached the exit, but the Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace emerged from his dantian, swallowed the blue ring, and broke through the temple roof.
• The furnace swallowed a talisman-like object, restoring the small world’s directions, and returned to Yang Yong as he escaped through the opening into the wilderness.
• The survivors rushed to the bus, and Yang Yong saw that the Blood Moon had shifted, indicating they had made it past the Coffin Temple.

Yang Yong drove the bus toward the Blood Moon while the Coffin Temple lifted five colossal creatures from their habitats and battled them. After the temple’s white hand saved him from the Eerie Bride, the tree giant pursued the bus as it neared the transparent wall.

• Yang Yong ordered Old Zhao to speed toward the Blood Moon, and Old Zhao discovered the bus’s fuel tank was full.
• The Coffin Temple rose into the air on black chains, dragging out a tree giant, a sea monster, an iron giant, a flaming bird, and a giant pangolin.
• Yang Yong boosted the bus with the One-Yang God-Sealing Banner as Cao Xianming’s group approached, while the temple’s white hand fought the five behemoths.
• The Eerie Bride pursued the bus and scattered the Red-Clothed Female Ghost, leaving Yang Yong unable to activate the Little Golden Flood Dragon Scissors.
• The Coffin Temple’s white hand seized the Eerie Bride and pulled her away, but the tree giant then charged after the bus.
• Yang Yong poured power into the God-Sealing Banner to flee as the bus came within inches of the transparent wall near the Blood Moon.

Yang Yong and the survivors escaped through a hole opened in the wall by the Ghost Bride, while Wang Ying and the others helped hold off the giant treant. The Ghost Bride was sealed back inside the Coffin Temple, but she promised Yang Yong she would find him within three years.

• The Ghost Bride used her yin fire and the Eerie Bride’s blood to burn a bus-sized hole through the transparent wall as Yang Yong urged Old Zhao to keep driving.
• Wang Ying cut the giant treant’s heel, making it stumble and giving the bus time to escape through the opening.
• As Yang Yong left, the Ghost Bride told him that he was still her husband and that she would come find him; he felt sudden pain and tears without understanding why.
• Wang Ying and Cao Xianming’s vehicles followed the bus through the hole, while Zheng Xiaofeng drew the treant’s attack and helped the final off-road vehicle escape.
• The wall repaired itself before the treant could follow, and the five black chains resealed the Coffin Temple; the exhausted Ghost Bride returned inside and vowed to find Yang Yong within three years.

After escaping the Small World, Cao Xianming assessed Zheng Xiaofeng and Wang Ying, then deduced how Zheng could strengthen his armor by repeatedly taking damage. The convoy regrouped with forty survivors but faced a fuel shortage, and Cao asked Yang Yong if he could make more of the token powering his bus.

• Yang Yong confronted Cao Xianming for not letting Wang Ying act sooner, but Cao redirected him to check on Zheng Xiaofeng, who had taken a punch from the treant.
• Cao scanned Zheng and found a shattered right arm and three broken ribs, then deduced that repeatedly breaking his armor would strengthen it; Zheng was told he would become the team's punching bag.
• Cao scanned Wang Ying and found her exhausted but uninjured after her slash had wounded the treant.
• Lao Zhang and Xiao Ma counted forty survivors in the convoy, while Xiao Ma reported that the vehicles had only two days of fuel remaining.
• Cao asked Yang Yong whether he could make more of the token powering his bus.

After the convoy settled into an isolated house, Xiao Liao noticed that the second floor was smaller than the other floors and suspected a hidden room. He led Wang Ying, Cao Xianming, and Yang Yong to investigate.

• Yang Yong refused to make a furnace for Cao Xianming, and Cao Xianming chose a house where the convoy could camp safely.
• Wang Ying searched the house and confirmed that no Eerie were inside, so the convoy moved in and began preparing food.
• Xiao Liao studied the house and realized that the second floor had less space than the first, while the third floor's layout was normal.
• Wang Ying asked what Xiao Liao had found, and he told her he suspected a secret room on the second floor.
• Cao Xianming and Yang Yong joined Xiao Liao and Wang Ying to look for the hidden room.

Xiao Liao discovered a hidden compartment, and the convoy traded supplies for its tea, liquor, and cigarettes, making him the convoy’s wealthiest survivor. That night, Yang Yong absorbed Blood Moon Energy and forcefully tried to open his first aperture, enduring intense pain as he refused to stop.

• Wang Ying cut through the wall after Xiao Liao identified a secret room, revealing cash, fine tea, liquor, and cigarettes.
• Cao Xianming traded five packets of instant noodles for the tea, Yang Yong traded cured sausage for the liquor, and Xiao Ma traded supplies for the cigarettes.
• Xiao Liao became the convoy’s wealthiest survivor, while the other men searched the building in vain for more hidden rooms.
• Yang Yong went to the top floor under the Blood Moon, used the One-Yang God-Sealing Banner to absorb energy, and summoned the Red-Clothed Female Ghost to guard him.
• Yang Yong began Qi Induction and forced Blood Moon Energy toward the aperture in his arm, drawing on the banner when his own energy ran out.
• Yang Yong endured piercing pain and a swelling arm as he continued battering the aperture, warned that giving up would make his next attempt twice as difficult.

Yang Yong forced open his Aperture with the Little Golden Flood Dragon Scissors, then recovered with the furnace’s help while the Red-Clothed Female Ghost guarded him. After the exhausted convoy stayed put for another day, Yang Yong woke at night and returned to the rooftop to cultivate.

• Yang Yong used the Little Golden Flood Dragon Scissors to break open his Aperture, badly injuring his arm, and the furnace repaired his meridians as he slept.
• Wang Ying stayed on the rooftop guarding Yang Yong through the night, then left to sleep when he woke in the morning.
• Zhuo Fujiao tried to deliver Yang Yong’s noodles but screamed and collapsed when the Red-Clothed Female Ghost opened the door; the ghost caught the bowl and carried it to Yang Yong.
• Rumors about Yang Yong and the Red-Clothed Female Ghost spread through the convoy while Yang Yong remained unable to move, so Cao Xianming decided everyone would stay another day.
• Yang Yong woke after dark, took out the One-Yang Sealing God Plate, and went to the rooftop to cultivate again.