Chapter Summaries

The captain warned that the tunnel was a passage into the Eerie world and ordered everyone to blindfold themselves and stay silent. When a young man cried out, the Eerie attacked him, leaving the convoy frozen in darkness as the sounds of him being devoured faded.

• The captain identified the tunnel as a possible passage between worlds and told the convoy that Rule-Type Eerie might be approaching.
• The captain and the others covered their eyes and mouths, and the vehicles behind them followed by switching off their lights and falling silent.
• Wang Ying kept her eyes shut as the Eerie drifted through the tunnel, brushing icy, itching sleeves across her face and hands.
• A young man in the Demoness Pickup Truck's bed cried out when something licked the back of his neck.
• The Eerie rushed toward the young man and devoured him while the people in the tunnel remained motionless and silent.

The Survival Convoy endured the Eerie passing through the tunnel and resisted their attempts to lure people into speaking or opening their eyes. After the voices finally stopped, Yang Yong woke and quietly asked Wang Ying what had happened.

• The Eerie moved through the tunnel, and people who made sounds were devoured as screams turned into chewing.
• A voice imitating Cao Xianming told the convoy to open their eyes, but Wang Ying warned everyone not to move.
• The Eerie mimicked Wang Che and pleaded with Wang Ying to save him, but she held back from answering.
• The Eerie cycled through loved ones’ voices, threats, and cries for help, while the convoy stayed silent even after the voices stopped.
• Yang Yong woke, saw everyone remaining motionless, and whispered to Wang Ying to ask what was happening.

After Eerie killed everyone who made a sound, Cao Xianming ordered the convoys to retreat from the tunnel, warning that it led to another world inhabited by Eerie. As the retreat began, he had Wang Ying use two bone whips to bind the Survival Convoy’s vehicles together, leaving the others baffled.

• The survivors found that the people who had made sounds during the Eerie’s passage had vanished, leaving foul-smelling residue behind.
• Cao Xianming ordered the convoys to reverse out of the tunnel and revealed that its depths opened into another world.
• A Sequence Three guide explained that the tunnel belonged to the Eerie, and a man who challenged Cao Xianming was thrown out of his convoy.
• Cao Xianming told Wang Ying to collect Yang Yong’s and Mang Dabiao’s bone whips.
• Cao Xianming used the bone whips to link the Survival Convoy’s vehicles together as they backed up.

Cao Xianming led the Survival Convoy out of the living tunnel by keeping every vehicle connected and moving at the same speed. They emerged safely onto a vast grassland, leaving Shanghai behind as the tunnel vanished.

• Cao Xianming warned the convoy that the tunnel was likely an Eerie connecting two worlds and that its exit shifted constantly.
• Cao Xianming explained that the bone whips and matched speeds would prevent the vehicles from being scattered across the world.
• Cao Xianming ordered everyone to reverse steadily and focus on the vehicle ahead as the tunnel distorted and tried to pull them back inside.
• The Survival Convoy endured the tunnel's suction and whispers, then crossed its boundary together into bright daylight.
• The convoy found itself on an endless grassland, and the tunnel and the other people who had exited earlier were gone.
• Cao Xianming smiled and murmured that he had finally gotten out of Shanghai.

After the convoy settled in for the night, Yang Yong struggled with the Evil Eye Lord and White-Bone Giant fighting inside his body, then woke beneath the Blood Moon and discovered Yezi was missing from the Ten-Thousand-Forging Primordial Furnace. The chapter left him staring in alarm at the Three-Yang God-Sealing Banner.

• Qi Peiliang checked the ground for Eerie presence, and the convoy decided to camp with 204 people.
• Yang Yong examined his corrupted face and endured the Evil Eye Lord and White-Bone Giant battling inside him, which also helped heal his wounds.
• Cao Xianming told Lao Zhang to follow the ration rules, and Yang Yong produced a large pile of rice for the convoy.
• Yang Yong fell asleep in the Demoness Pickup Truck and woke beneath a huge Blood Moon to eat the food left for him.
• Yang Yong heard the Ten-Thousand-Forging Primordial Furnace still working, found Yezi's consciousness absent, and turned to the Three-Yang God-Sealing Banner in alarm.

Yang Yong discovered that Yezi’s soul had become the fourth main soul of the Four-Yang God-Sealing Banner, while the Ten-Thousand-Forging Primordial Furnace consumed his supernatural power to forge a mysterious seed. At the Survival Convoy’s bonfire, he met an all-women convoy whose immaculate appearance made him suspect something was wrong.

• Yang Yong found that Yezi’s soul had advanced the Three-Yang God-Sealing Banner into the Four-Yang God-Sealing Banner, and he discovered a marked black seed inside the furnace.
• Yang Yong placed the furnace in the pickup truck’s bed beneath the Blood Moon, but it continued draining his supernatural power as it worked on the seed.
• Yang Yong wore a black robe and ghost-face mask to approach the bonfire, startling the crowd before they recognized his voice.
• Yang Yong removed his mask, prompting several people to scream, while Wang Ying said his altered face looked fine.
• Yang Yong noticed unfamiliar women at the bonfire, saw that they were exceptionally beautiful and immaculately dressed, and began suspecting their appearance was unnatural.

At the bonfire, Yang Yong realized that a visiting tribe of women was being controlled by a mysterious short woman who could command their livestock and compel them to approach the Survival Convoy’s men. He stayed back to watch as Doctor Zhu Yuhao was approached by one of the women.

• Zheng Xiaofeng told Yang Yong that the women had arrived to trade livestock and that the convoy had exchanged goods for lamb.
• Yang Yong noticed the sheep were unnaturally silent and saw that they moved in unison when the short woman raised her hand.
• Yang Yong suspected the short woman had an unusual Beast Tamer ability and exchanged a knowing look with Wang Ying.
• The women sang and approached the convoy’s men, while Yang Yong hid in the shadows and observed their fearful, pleading expressions.
• Yang Yong saw the short woman’s cold glance make a woman force a smile and lead Mang Dabiao toward the bonfire.
• Yang Yong caught a faint sweet scent and remained where he was as Doctor Zhu Yuhao was blocked by a pretty woman with braided hair.

Yang Yong and Cao Xianming observed the women at the bonfire, while Cao secretly gathered information from Xiaofang. After the women retired, the iPad showed Cao an image of the short woman ruling over kneeling women, revealing that they were a female-supremacist tribe.

• Yang Yong watched Cao Xianming charm Xiaofang with a show of interest as he covertly studied her stories for clues.
• Yang Yong returned to his spot and opened another aperture on the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace.
• Cao counted twenty-three yurts as the women settled in, then returned to his tent and activated the iPad.
• The iPad showed the short woman seated above kneeling women in an image of submission.
• Cao concluded that the women were not a convoy but a female-supremacist tribe.

Cao Xianming's calculations found nothing wrong with the neighboring women's trades, but his Transcendent's intuition warned him to keep the convoy away from them. He realized their smiles at the bonfire had seemed to cut off unnaturally, though he could not recall what their lower faces looked like.

• Cao Xianming emerged exhausted after spending the night analyzing the women's offers and found that every model made them seem reasonable.
• The convoy's women teased Cao Xianming about spending the night with one of the visitors and eyed him with jealousy and desire.
• Lao Zhang told Cao Xianming that the convoy had eaten half its food reserves at the bonfire and wanted to trade for more mutton.
• Cao Xianming warned Lao Zhang and Yang Yong to cut off contact with the women because his Transcendent's intuition sensed danger.
• Cao Xianming recalled that the women's smiles at the bonfire had abruptly stopped at angles beyond the firelight, and he could not remember what their lower faces had looked like.

Cao Xianming and Yang Yong suspected the women at the neighboring camp were hiding something, so they watched them as they opened a trading fair. Yang Yong found Skinny Monkey tending a stall for He Jing, but the chapter left the stall’s purpose unexplained.

• Cao Xianming told Yang Yong to watch the women, especially the short girl who raised sheep, after he recognized the women’s and Lao Zhang’s expressions of desire.
• Yang Yong summoned Mang Dabiao to inspect the women, but Mang Dabiao could find nothing unusual and went to keep watch on them.
• The women silently set up a trading fair and offered healthy, ordinary-looking sheep, while Yang Yong saw no obvious sign that anything was wrong.
• Yang Yong visited Cao Xianming’s stall and noticed that its marine Curio Materials were priced so highly that Cao Xianming seemed to be baiting potential traders.
• Yang Yong found Skinny Monkey tending a stall named He Jing that displayed bottles of colored liquids, and Skinny Monkey confirmed it belonged to Lord He Jing.

Yang Yong inspected the convoy’s stalls, learned that He Jing had supplied a fuel substitute, and discovered that Taoist was a woman named Ma Xiaotong who wanted him to forge her peachwood sword. He then spoke with Monk about the sariras and ended by asking how much they cost.

• Skinny Monkey told Yang Yong that He Jing’s Combustion Agent could replace gasoline and keep a van running for a hundred kilometers per liter.
• Yang Yong inspected the stalls and realized that Taoist was a Taoist nun who introduced herself as Ma Xiaotong and asked him to forge her cracked peachwood sword.
• Yang Yong examined the sword but only said he would think about the request before moving on.
• Monk told Yang Yong that his grandmaster had foretold a great calamity and that he would follow whoever could use the ancestral sariras.
• Yang Yong recalled that the sariras had reacted to the Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace rather than to him, then asked Monk how he was selling them.

Yang Yong investigated a suspicious trade with the women’s convoy after Cao Xianming warned him not to accept any deal. When a stallkeeper hesitated over his extremely low offer for a Man-Eating Black Goat horn, Yang Yong suspected the Curio Materials came at no cost and offered five jin of rice for all of them.

• The Monk refused to sell Yang Yong a relic, saying he would give relics only to people with a karmic connection.
• Li Haijian relayed Cao Xianming’s warning that Yang Yong should bargain with the women’s convoy but must not trade with them.
• Yang Yong noticed that the Survival Convoy had raised its prices dramatically and suspected the women’s trade had a hidden catch.
• Yang Yong recognized a Man-Eating Black Goat horn among the women’s Curio Materials and offered one jin of rice after the stallkeeper asked for five.
• When the stallkeeper hesitated at his low offer, Yang Yong stopped her from accepting and offered five jin of rice for all the Curio Materials.

Yang Yong uncovered suspicious behavior by the women at the trading area, and Cao Xianming ordered him to stop them. After Wang Ying and Yang Yong captured the short woman, she vanished into smoke, leaving Yang Yong questioning what kind of Sequence Transcendence she possessed.

• Yang Yong sensed danger when the stallholder eagerly offered to trade, left the trading area, and told Cao Xianming what had happened.
• Cao Xianming analyzed Yang Yong's account and ordered him to surround the women, but Yang Yong arrived as they rode away and abandoned their goods.
• Yang Yong called for Wang Ying, who severed the horses' legs with her Black Gold Bone Blade and brought the fleeing women down.
• The short woman summoned a pack of wolves to carry her away, but Wang Ying cut the wolves' legs and Yang Yong's Heavenly Dragon Slash Flying Daggers stopped the woman.
• The short woman surrendered without showing fear, then turned into smoke and vanished, leaving Yang Yong wondering whether she belonged to the Keeper Sequence.

After a group of women collapsed into strange, seizure-like states, Zhu Yuhao treated them while Yang Yong and the convoy waited for answers. When one woman woke with no memory, Cao Xianming realized that nobody could remember how the women had introduced themselves, deepening the mystery around them.

• The women began babbling and convulsing after the short woman dissolved into smoke, so Yang Yong called for Zhu Yuhao.
• Zhu Yuhao stabilized the women and said they had suffered a stress response, though some might not wake for days or could remain vegetative.
• Cao Xianming arrived as the convoy’s Transcendents and ordinary survivors gathered around the unconscious women.
• One woman woke and asked, “Who am I? How did I get here?”
• Cao Xianming asked how the women had introduced themselves, and everyone realized they could not remember.

Yang Yong realized a hidden power had made the Survival Convoy overlook the women’s origins, and he sent the White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost to investigate. When Liu Jiaqi’s head exploded as she tried to recall her past, the Monk suspected a hypnotic restriction planted by a Hypnotist Sequence Transcendent.

• Yang Yong discovered that no one in the Survival Convoy remembered asking where the women came from, and he summoned the White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost to track the escaped woman.
• Cao Xianming hurriedly entered his calculations and information into the Data Model before his memories could be erased.
• Peng Fan questioned Liu Jiaqi, who remembered joining a convoy and meeting a tribe but could not recall what happened afterward.
• Liu Jiaqi clutched her head in pain, and her head suddenly burst apart, splattering the onlookers with blood and brain matter.
• The Sequence Transcendents drew their weapons but found no attacker, and the Monk said a hypnotic restriction may have caused Liu Jiaqi’s head to explode when she recalled certain memories.

After Liu Jiaqi’s death, He Jing explained the dangers and limits of a Hypnotist Sequence Demon Whisperer, while Yang Yong took charge of securing the unconscious women. The Survival Convoy guarded them, waited for Cao Xianming and the returning scouts, and took over the trade fair and its supplies.

• He Jing revealed that she had witnessed a Sequence Two Demon Whisperer control ordinary people, and warned that higher sequences might be more dangerous.
• Zhu Yuhao asked what to do with the unconscious women, while Peng Fan remained stunned by Liu Jiaqi’s death.
• Yang Yong asked Qi Peiliang whether the women showed signs of being Eerie, and Qi Peiliang confirmed they were human.
• Yang Yong ordered Lao Zhang to lock the women together in a nearby yurt under guard.
• The Survival Convoy took possession of the trade goods, gathered the supplies, and continued the trade fair without the women.

Yang Yong traded with He Jing for Combustion Agent and agreed to forge her broom into a Curio using materials she supplied. When Xiao Liao announced that Captain Cao had awakened and summoned the Transcendents, Yang Yong and He Jing hurried to join the gathering.

• Yang Yong went to He Jing's stall seeking Combustion Agent, and He Jing offered to supply his truck's fuel in exchange for a forged Curio.
• Yang Yong agreed to forge He Jing's broom if she supplied the materials and accepted the risk, and he took two bottles of Combustion Agent as a deposit.
• Xiao Liao announced that Captain Cao had awakened and ordered all Transcendents to gather.
• Yang Yong flew to the meeting place, and He Jing followed on her broom.
• Wang Ying, Zheng Xiaofeng, Liu Hong, Qi Peiliang, Monk, Ma Xiaotong, Huang Xiaojuan, Hu Xian'er, Zhang Bihuang, and Xiao Yuxia were among those gathered.

Cao Xianming told the seventeen people who had traded with the women's convoy that they were marked for sacrifice, though he believed there was still hope. Before he could explain further, an invisible attacker killed one of the traders, and Qi Peiliang concluded that a Transcendent was responsible.

• Yang Yong saw Cao Xianming's fury and feared something had happened to Lao Zhang, but Lao Zhang soon arrived with sixteen other people who had traded with the women's convoy.
• Cao Xianming announced that he had calculated the direction of the convoy's mastermind and that all seventeen traders had been placed on a sacrificial list.
• Cao Xianming explained that something had been planted inside the traders and warned that they were in grave danger.
• As Cao Xianming began to reassure Lao Zhang that there was still hope, an invisible attacker bit off a woman's hand and then fatally bit through her neck.
• Qi Peiliang detected no Eerie aura and concluded that a Transcendent had attacked them.

An invisible rule-level curse continued killing the convoy members, and the Transcendents could find no way to stop it. Convoy Supervisor Lao Zhang and the remaining fifteen victims were left facing certain death.

• The Transcendents realized that trading with the women had exposed the convoy to a deadly curse, and He Jing regretted how close she had come to trading for Curios.
• Cao Xianming tried to reassure Convoy Supervisor Lao Zhang that he would find a way to break the curse, but Lao Zhang said he had already wanted to die after losing his family.
• An invisible attack tore open another man's chest and crushed his heart, while Wang Ying's blade and Ma Xiaotong's Talisman failed to stop it.
• Cao Xianming's Data Model found no weakness, and Yang Yong and the other Transcendents admitted they could not block a rule-level attack.
• The remaining fifteen victims, including Convoy Supervisor Lao Zhang, lost their last hope of surviving.

Cao Xianming discovered that hiding in a Ghost Domain could shield the group from the sacrificial rules, and Yang Yong revealed Yezi as the source of a small Ghost Domain. The fifteen survivors remained safe inside it for half an hour, while Yang Yong wondered whether Yezi’s mental illness had been cured.

• Cao Xianming said the group could temporarily evade the sacrificial rules by hiding in a Ghost Domain, but they had no way to find one on the grassland.
• Yang Yong summoned Yezi from the Four Yang God-Sealing Banner, shocking the others by revealing she had become its fourth Main Soul.
• Yezi declared “Ten-meter domain,” and plants rapidly grew into a green, ten-meter Ghost Domain around her.
• Cao Xianming ordered everyone inside, and fifteen people entered the domain to hide.
• After half an hour without further deaths or injuries, Cao Xianming and Lao Zhang realized the Ghost Domain had protected them.
• Yang Yong kept watching Yezi and wondered whether her mental illness had been cured.