Chapter Summaries

Yang Yong wondered why Yezi could speak but received no answer, while Cao Xianming rallied the Sequence Transcendents to kill the unseen trader who could turn people into sacrificial offerings. The White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost then showed Yang Yong and Cao Xianming a vision of slaves kneeling before a woman in a magnificent Yurt, leaving Cao Xianming consumed by rage.

• Yang Yong questioned why Yezi could speak, but she did not respond, and he dismissed the change as granting her speech without consciousness.
• Cao Xianming warned the Sequence Transcendents that an unknown trader could secretly bind people into contracts and turn them into sacrificial offerings.
• Cao Xianming urged everyone to kill the trader before he grew powerful, and the gathered Transcendents silently shared his resolve.
• Mang Dabiao raced toward the group as the White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost emerged from Yang Yong's banner and handed him a letter.
• Yang Yong opened the letter and saw a vision of a woman seated in a Yurt above a row of ragged slaves.
• Cao Xianming took the letter, saw the vision, and erupted into barely controlled fury.

Cao Xianming realized that the being behind the contracts binding Lao Zhang and fourteen others was an Eerie too powerful for the group to challenge. After Mang Dabiao reported a vast settlement filled with Eerie and invisible attackers, Cao Xianming modeled the area and revealed an unknown presence beyond its largest yurt, leaving the Transcendents unsure whether rescuing ordinary people was worth the risk.

• Cao Xianming sensed a terrifying presence while trying to deduce who backed Yezi and concluded that the group could not afford to provoke the Eerie behind Lao Zhang and the others' contracts.
• Yang Yong stopped Mang Dabiao, who arrived wounded and warned that they could not fight the enemy he had encountered.
• Mang Dabiao reported finding a vast settlement of yurts where at least half the people carried Eerie auras, with stronger Eerie farther inside and invisible attacks that wounded him.
• Cao Xianming entered Mang Dabiao's account into his data model, revealing a grassland settlement surrounded by wolf packs and centered on a lavish golden yurt.
• Cao Xianming said he could not touch the blank area beyond the largest yurt, and the Transcendents questioned whether confronting the presence to save ordinary people was worth the risk.

Yang Yong and the Survival Convoy escaped a swarm of explosive rabbits, while Mao Minwei’s severed arm began healing under a mysterious green light from Yezi’s Ghost Domain. The convoy reached safety but faced uncertainty about where to go and how long Yezi could protect them.

• Mao Minwei caught a rabbit that turned red-eyed and exploded, blowing off his right hand.
• Yang Yong spotted a massive wave of red-eyed rabbits and led the convoy through a path cleared by a chain of explosions.
• Zhu Yuhao treated Mao Minwei and discovered green light from Yezi’s Ghost Domain had stopped the bleeding and was healing the wound.
• The convoy left the explosive rabbits behind, and Yang Yong explained that Yezi’s Ghost Domain could last indefinitely at night but consumed stored Blood Moon energy during the day.
• Cao Xianming asked how long Yezi’s Ghost Domain could last, leaving Yang Yong to worry about the fifteen contract-bound people and the dangers ahead.

The Survival Convoy crossed the grassland beneath the Blood Moon until a wolf attack warning sent its members into battle. Yang Yong spotted a sinister teenage boy creating a hurricane, but a scream from the bus made him suspect the attackers were targeting Yezi’s ghost domain and might be cursed.

• Cao Xianming continued modeling the grassland as the convoy drove onward, and the radio suddenly blared a warning about wolves.
• Qi Peiliang identified the threat as a mutant beast or Transcendent rather than an eerie, and Yang Yong searched for the escaped Beast Tamer but saw no sign of her.
• Yang Yong spotted a sinister teenage boy summoning a hurricane and ordered Wang Ying to strike; she split the hurricane and nearly hit the boy.
• A scream came from the bus while Yezi maintained her ten-meter ghost domain, and Yang Yong suspected the attackers were targeting it on behalf of the entity that had cursed Lao Zhang and the others.
• Yang Yong urgently asked Cao Xianming to calculate whether the attackers had been cursed like Lao Zhang and the others.

Yang Yong identified the distant woman as a likely curse monitor but had no ordinary way to reach her, so he used the Four Yang God-Sealing Banner while ordering the convoy to expose the lurking enemy. The convoy cornered the ratlike shadow-hider under Xiao Xuan’s Buddha-Light Jewel, but Cao Xianming warned them not to underestimate him.

• Cao Xianming calculated a 66.6% chance that two of the three visible enemies had been implanted with curses, and Yang Yong singled out the distant woman on horseback as their monitor.
• Yang Yong found that no one in the convoy had a reliable attack that could reach the woman several thousand meters away, and he ordered Liu Hong and Zheng Xiaofeng off the van roof when they tried to help.
• Yang Yong used the Four Yang God-Sealing Banner to send a Climbing Vine and a streak of gray light across the grassland, then told everyone to draw out the enemy hiding in the shadows.
• Xiao Xuan raised the Buddha-Light Jewel, which drove back the shadows and revealed a ratlike man hiding among them.
• The convoy’s Sequence Transcendents surrounded the ratlike man, and Cao Xianming warned them that he might fight desperately to escape.

Yang Yong’s group captured Rat Man and used Yezi’s vines to stop the woman watching from the hillside from escaping as gray mist. A small gray shadow slapped her back into a trapped doll form, leaving Yang Yong celebrating the unexpected success.

• The Monk, Ma Xiaotong, Zheng Xiaofeng, and Liu Hong attacked Rat Man together and left him badly injured.
• Yezi’s vine dragged Rat Man into the Ten-Meter Ghost Domain, where she bound him tightly with vines.
• The woman watching from the hillside turned into gray mist and tried to flee as Yezi’s hidden vine killed her horse by draining it dry.
• A small gray shadow emerged from Yezi’s vine and slapped the woman, forcing her gray-mist body into the shape of a rigid doll.
• Yang Yong clenched his fist and exclaimed in triumph as the woman’s remaining black mist was held inside the doll form.

Yang Yong used the Little Girl Eerie’s Big Slap Technique to turn the escaping woman into a doll, then called out to the sinister-looking youth and claimed the bus could isolate his enslavement contract curse. The rat man confirmed Yang Yong’s claim, leaving the youth to decide whether to approach.

• Yang Yong revealed that the Little Girl Eerie’s rule-based slap could turn the woman’s gray-mist form into a doll.
• Yezi’s Climbing Vine retrieved the doll while Yang Yong prepared to address the sinister-looking youth with the Loudspeaker.
• The sinister-looking youth hesitated between fighting and fleeing as Yang Yong called out, asking whether he feared his enslavement contract and its missions.
• Yang Yong claimed the bus could isolate the contract curse within ten meters and pointed to the bound rat man as proof.
• Yezi threatened the rat man with a vine at his neck, and he told the youth, “What he said... was true.”

Yang Yong’s group proved that the green Light Screen blocked the curse controlling the two captives, and Wu Lijian rushed into it to escape that control. With both men secured, Peng Fan began questioning them, and Wu Lijian started by giving his name and background.

• The sinister-looking boy demanded that the rat-faced man curse their tormentor to prove the Light Screen blocked the curse, and the man cursed the goat-horned being for five minutes.
• After believing the proof, the boy sprinted into the green Light Screen without using his wind abilities and laughed in relief when the curse’s control lifted.
• Yang Yong ordered Yezi to bind the boy with Climbing Vines, resolving the threat to the Survival Convoy.
• Yang Yong called for Peng Fan and ordered him to question the two captives.
• Wu Lijian told Peng Fan that he had been an ordinary office worker.

Wu Lijian explained how his group, the Storm Convoy, had been trapped by a seemingly harmless trade and bound into slavery by the being behind the horsewomen. He revealed that the contract let the being track its victims and prevented them from dying.

• Peng Fan asked Wu Lijian why he and his companions had come, and Wu Lijian said they were investigating the disappearance of fifteen people.
• Wu Lijian revealed that he and his companions had also traded with the being’s blood descendants and received undetectable contracts.
• Wu Lijian recounted how a storm stranded the Storm Convoy on the grassland, where explosive rabbits and poisonous meat left its survivors starving.
• Horsewomen offered the convoy meat in exchange for supplies, and the group accepted the trades because they seemed safe and necessary.
• Wu Lijian explained that completing even one trade had let the being bind each trader as a slave, track them anywhere, and prevent them from dying.

Peng Fan questioned Wu Lijian and Ground Rat about their past and abilities, then Cao Xianming ordered them to fill blank crystals with supernatural power before they could go free. The convoy camped on the grassland, and the next morning someone screamed that a person had died.

• Ground Rat confirmed that he and Wu Lijian had belonged to the same convoy and said he had forgotten his real name.
• Ground Rat and Wu Lijian revealed their sequence abilities, and Cao Xianming ordered them kept in the Ten-Meter Ghost Domain until they filled a heap of blank crystals.
• Yang Yong released some of their restraints, allowing them to move around the bus while remaining inside Yezi's domain.
• Cao Xianming stopped the convoy after it traveled several dozen kilometers, and Qi Peiliang found no eerie presence near their campsite.
• The night passed without incident, but a scream rang across the grassland the next morning announcing that someone had died.

The convoy discovered that Eerie Qi had mutated sheep into man-eating monsters, and Yang Yong refined them into blood beads of unknown use. As the convoy slaughtered the remaining sheep, Ground Rat and Wu Lijian secretly discussed the Eerie Qi and their past dealings, unaware that the White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost was recording everything.

• A woman found Xiao Liu's mutilated body in the sheep pen, where four mutated sheep were feeding on him.
• Wang Ying killed one charging sheep, and Yang Yong used the Ten-Thousand-Forging Primordial Furnace to refine all four into mixed blood beads.
• Cao Xianming ordered the convoy to slaughter the remaining sheep and make jerky in case they were infected by Eerie Qi.
• Ground Rat and Wu Lijian whispered on the bus about Eerie Qi and why they had traded with the women for protection from it.
• The White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost recorded their conversation and expressions in a hidden love letter.

Yang Yong learned that Wu Lijian and Ground Rat were waiting to see whether the convoy could survive an avatar of the Goat Eerie, and he brought their conversation to Cao Xianming. Cao Xianming decided to make them reveal everything and prepare to refine the avatar, while something underground stirred at the smell of blood.

• The White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost showed Yang Yong an illusion in which Ground Rat proposed contacting the convoy, but Wu Lijian argued they should wait until it proved it could face the Goat Eerie's avatar.
• Yang Yong realized Wu Lijian was keeping an escape route open and took the love letter to Cao Xianming for him to assess.
• Cao Xianming emerged from the illusion and asked whether Yang Yong's furnace could refine a Demon God-level Eerie, then declared they would try to refine the Goat Eerie's avatar.
• Cao Xianming ordered Yang Yong to make Ground Rat and Wu Lijian reveal everything they knew, intending to force them to commit to the convoy.
• After the wind spread the scent of blood across the grassland, Qi Peiliang sensed something underground and warned Wang Ying.

Qi Peiliang sensed a powerful Eerie following the Survival Convoy underground, while Cao Xianming judged the danger to be low and ordered the convoy to hold steady. The convoy began moving, but Qi Peiliang realized the Eerie was keeping pace with them.

• Qi Peiliang sensed something burrowing upward and warned the Survival Convoy that an Eerie was coming.
• The convoy rushed into its vehicles, but a Climbing Vine controlled the bus and prevented Old Yang from driving away.
• Cao Xianming calculated that the approaching Eerie was almost certainly not the Goat Eerie's avatar and ordered everyone to hold steady.
• Cao Xianming told the convoy to move, while Qi Peiliang detected a terrifying aura underground and warned him that the Eerie was not weak.
• Qi Peiliang realized the Eerie was following the convoy underground and shouted a warning over the radio.

Cao Xianming identified an earth dragon attacking the convoy, and the young monk destroyed it with a golden palm strike. As the monk returned, Cao Xianming discovered that the earth dragon’s energy signature was changing dramatically.

• Cao Xianming’s Data Model revealed a huge, black-scaled earth dragon moving underground, and he warned the convoy.
• The earth dragon burst from beneath the bus and targeted the fifteen contract-bound passengers, while its shrill voice drove people to panic.
• Yang Yong attacked with furnace flames, but the earth dragon’s scales resisted the heat; Cao Xianming identified its mouth as its weakness.
• A young monk stepped forward, said his Sequence ability countered the earth dragon, and blasted a golden hand into its mouth, making it explode into black powder.
• The monk returned past Yang Yong and asked if he was strong, while Cao Xianming’s radio report cut off as he announced the earth dragon’s energy signature was changing.

Qi Peiliang identified the reborn earth dragon as an Undying Species that grew stronger each time it was killed, forcing Yang Yong’s group to try containing it instead. When Wang Ying’s slash split the dragon apart, Yang Yong’s Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace drew in its scattered black particles, and the unfinished seed inside began absorbing them as a dragon roared.

• Qi Peiliang told Cao Xianming that the earth dragon was an Undying Species that evolved whenever it was killed.
• Yang Yong ordered Monk to bind the earth dragon, but Monk’s Dragon-Shaped Qi Force shattered and he fled.
• Yang Yong directed everyone to weaken the dragon without killing it, but Wang Ying cut it in half with the Black Gold Bone Blade.
• Yang Yong opened the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace, and its unfinished seed began absorbing the dragon’s black particles.
• Yang Yong enlarged the furnace and sucked in half the black particles before a dragon’s cry rang out.

Yang Yong used the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace to absorb the half-formed earth dragon’s particles while the Survival Convoy helped restrain it. The dragon resurrected into a stronger form, and Cao Xianming coordinated a new attack as Wang Ying prepared to strike.

• Yang Yong intensified the furnace’s suction, and Zhang Bihuang, He Jing, and others attacked the earth dragon to slow its particles and disrupt its formation.
• The earth dragon charged Yang Yong, but Zheng Xiaofeng blocked its bite with his armor and struck it into the ground with his shield.
• The earth dragon burrowed underground, drew energy from the earth, and emerged fully formed with the strength of a Sequence Three Transcendent.
• Wang Ying asked whether she should cut down the dragon, and Cao Xianming told her to wait while he assigned the others to direct its scattered particles toward Yang Yong.
• Cao Xianming counted down and ordered the group to kill the earth dragon as Wang Ying readied her blade.

Wang Ying and the others destroyed the Earth Dragon and funneled its remains into Yang Yong’s Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace. As they waited to see if it had been contained, a mysterious man appeared inside the off-road vehicle, leaving Qi Peiliang and Cao Xianming terrified; Cao Xianming asked him who he was.

• Wang Ying sliced the Earth Dragon into fragments, and He Jing and the others swept them toward Yang Yong’s furnace.
• Yang Yong entered the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace and swallowed the Earth Dragon’s fragments before they could reassemble.
• A well-dressed man appeared in the off-road vehicle and watched the furnace.
• Yang Yong sensed an overwhelming scrutiny, while Qi Peiliang saw a vision of corpses and blood and nearly collapsed.
• Cao Xianming realized the newcomer lay beyond his battlefield data model, turned toward him, and asked, “Who are you?”

Cao Xianming realized the Man in the Suit was likely connected to the Earth Dragon and tried to appear harmless while the stranger overwhelmed him with pressure. When Wang Ying attacked the man, her Sky-Splitting Slash vanished without effect, and he revealed that the Earth Dragon was a little pet he had made.

• Cao Xianming's Data Model calculated an eighty-seven percent chance that the Man in the Suit was connected to the Earth Dragon, and Cao Xianming pretended to be terrified and harmless.
• The Man in the Suit patted Cao Xianming's shoulder with controlled force that made him feel close to death.
• The convoy's radio went silent as the group sensed an unfamiliar oppressive power, and Wang Ying spotted the Man in the Suit in Cao Xianming's Off-Road Vehicle.
• Wang Ying attacked the Man in the Suit with her Sky-Splitting Slash, but the attack vanished before reaching him.
• Wang Ying confronted the Man in the Suit, who told her that the Earth Dragon was a little pet he had put together.

A suited man revealed that the Earth Dragon was his creation and effortlessly subdued Yang Yong while Yang Yong tried to finish forging the seed. After recognizing something about Yang Yong, the man called an ordinary earthworm his and fed it a crystalline drop of blood.

• The suited man said he had created the Earth Dragon as a pet and criticized everyone for bullying it.
• Yang Yong continued forging the seed with the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace, but the suited man pinned him down with an irresistible force.
• The suited man released Yang Yong, and Yang Yong shrank the furnace and faced him.
• The suited man examined Yang Yong, realized the earthworm was connected to him, and called it his little thing.
• The suited man picked up an ordinary earthworm and dropped a crystalline bead of blood onto it, stunning everyone.

The Man in the Suit transformed an earthworm into an Earth Dragon with a drop of his blood, then helped Yang Yong finish forging the seed in his furnace. He identified the seed as an incomplete World Tree Seed, leaving Yang Yong and everyone present stunned.

• The Man in the Suit transformed an earthworm into an Earth Dragon with a drop of his blood, terrifying the onlookers.
• The Man in the Suit told Yang Yong to continue forging the seed and sped up the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace with a gesture.
• The seed devoured every black particle in the furnace, completing the forging in three seconds.
• Yang Yong worried the Man in the Suit would take the seed, but the Man in the Suit said he would not steal it.
• The Man in the Suit identified the seed as an incomplete World Tree Seed, shocking Yang Yong and everyone nearby.