Chapter Summaries

After opening his first Aperture, Yang Yong joined the convoy’s search of a village that seemed unnaturally stripped of supplies. Xiao Ma arrived with Cao Xianming’s warning that the supplies were hidden in the old Ancestral Hall, and the search team rushed there.

• Yang Yong felt his Blood Moon Energy capacity surge after opening his first Aperture and decided to cultivate cautiously before attempting another breakthrough.
• Cao Xianming sent the convoy to search a nearby village, where Yang Yong was paired with Wang Ying.
• Yang Yong and the survivors found the houses suspiciously empty, so he called for Xiao Liao to inspect their structures for hidden spaces.
• Xiao Liao found no signs of hidden compartments or basements, leaving the search party unable to explain why Cao Xianming expected supplies there.
• Xiao Ma delivered Cao Xianming’s message that the supplies were in the oldest Ancestral Hall and warned the group to move quickly.
• Yang Yong and the search team hurried toward the Ancestral Hall, which they had overlooked earlier.

Yang Yong and the others discovered a vast store of grain in a giant rat nest beneath the Mo Family Village, but their looting triggered a deadly rat tide. As the convoy fled, a giant rat raced after them, and Yang Yong prepared to fight.

• Wang Ying found a claw-dug hole beneath the Ancestral Hall's offering table, and Yang Yong sent the Red-Clothed Female Ghost ahead before the group entered.
• Yang Yong and the others found a huge underground store of grain and filled their bags until he sensed the rats approaching and ordered everyone to retreat.
• Wang Ying blasted an exit through the passage, and the group fled as a massive tide of rats poured down the hillside.
• Wang Ying slowed the rats with her saber while the vehicles picked up the fleeing survivors, but an old man carrying too much was devoured.
• A boar-sized giant rat sprang from the tide and pursued the convoy, while Yang Yong gripped the One-Yang God-Sealing Banner and felt his Blood Moon Energy erupt.

The convoy escaped a swarm of mutated rats after Wang Ying cut down their climbing columns, and Cao Xianming used his Data Model to guide them to a crash site with fuel. Yang Yong searched the wreckage for a vehicle and found a red farm truck with its key still in the ignition.

• A giant rat directed the swarm to pile up and glide after the convoy, but Wang Ying severed the towering rat columns with a sweeping blade strike.
• Yang Yong and Wang Ying reflected on the danger of increasingly powerful mutations while Cao Xianming analyzed the giant rat and recorded data that could help him advance to Sequence Three.
• After the convoy finally lost the pursuing rats, Cao Xianming used his Data Model to find fuel and led everyone along a winding route to a crash site.
• The convoy discovered an upright tanker truck full of fuel, and Yang Yong began checking abandoned vehicles for one he could drive.
• Yang Yong found a red farm truck with tools and empty fuel drums in its cargo bed, and he turned the key left in its ignition.

Yang Yong claimed a farm truck and helped the convoy clear a tanker truck from the wreckage before Cao Xianming ordered an urgent departure at sunset. After traveling through the night and stopping by abandoned farmland at dawn, the survivors heard an unseen whistle and watched a locomotive emerge from a glowing field and charge toward a mountain.

• Yang Yong claimed a farm truck, filled it with fuel, and gathered supplies while the other survivors secured an SUV and salvaged goods from the wrecks.
• Yang Yong directed the survivors to clear the wreckage, freeing the tanker truck and opening a path for the convoy.
• Cao Xianming ordered everyone into their vehicles as night fell, and the convoy traveled until morning under his directions.
• Yang Yong cooked porridge and went to sleep beside abandoned farmland after the convoy stopped for the day.
• A whistle and rhythmic chuffing woke the survivors, but Wang Ying, Yang Yong, and Cao Xianming could not see what was approaching.
• A glowing screen opened in a field, and a huge locomotive and its carriages emerged from underground before crossing the landscape toward a mountain.

The Survival Convoy witnessed the Never-Ending Steam Train, No. 15, pass through a mountain, and Cao Xianming identified it as a Curio. The train returned, and its Sequence Transcendent passenger Zou Wei approached the convoy to trade materials for rice.

• The Never-Ending Steam Train plunged through a mountainside as the convoy watched in disbelief.
• Cao Xianming used his Data Model to identify the train as the Curio Never-Ending Steam Train, No. 15.
• The train returned, and Cao Xianming predicted that the encounter would not lead to a fight.
• Zou Wei jumped from the moving train and approached the convoy to trade supplies.
• Zou Wei introduced himself as a Magician and met Cao Xianming, the Survival Convoy's captain.
• Cao Xianming and Zou Wei began negotiating a trade of the train's materials for the convoy's rice.

Yang Yong recognized that Zou Wei’s artifact-refining materials could be processed by his furnace and agreed to forge Wang Ying’s saber with Black Gold and the jade-like leg bone. As the convoy finished trading supplies for materials, Zou Wei prepared a magic trick to load them onto his returning steam train.

• Zou Wei traded with Cao Xianming, who selected Black Gold, Space Stone, and an unidentified sand-like material in exchange for a third of the convoy’s supplies.
• Cao Xianming pointed out that Yang Yong was the only person in the convoy able to process the materials, and Yang Yong agreed to upgrade Wang Ying’s Blood-Drinking Mad Saber using Black Gold and the jade-like leg bone.
• Yang Yong fed the saber, leg bone, and three heavy pieces of Black Gold into the Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace and began forging.
• Cao Xianming and Zou Wei completed their trade as the Never-Ending Steam Train returned to collect Zou Wei.
• Zou Wei refused help loading the supplies and produced a flower, prompting the onlookers to watch as he began a magic trick.

Zou Wei used the socially anxious flying carpet to load supplies onto the unstoppable steam train, then warned Cao Xianming that the train trapped its passengers on an unknown route. After the convoy fled for three days and nights, Yang Yong finally fell asleep, while a dark figure appeared in Cao Xianming's tent.

• Zou Wei revealed that his flying carpet stopped moving when people stared at it, so he covered it with a black cloth and sent it carrying supplies to the steam train.
• Zou Wei told Cao Xianming that the train never stopped, trapped passengers until death, and followed an unknown destination before boarding it and disappearing into the mountains.
• Cao Xianming warned the convoy that powerful Curios could be dangerous and ordered everyone to leave quickly because the rat swarm was closing in.
• Yang Yong drove through a three-day-and-night escape, enduring exhaustion as the saber in his Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace continued to be forged.
• Yang Yong fell asleep after the convoy stopped, while Cao Xianming sat alone in his tent and a dark figure emerged from the shadows.

Cao Xianming’s convoy enjoyed two days of safety after Zheng Xiaofeng advanced to Iron Armorer, but a survivor then encountered a ghostly love letter from his past. The chapter ended as he described finding and reading the letter, while the threat remained unseen.

• Cao Xianming invited a mysterious stranger to sit with him after calculating something with his Data Model.
• Yang Yong traded grain for a meal, and Cao Xianming proposed having a survivor cook separately for the Transcendents.
• Zheng Xiaofeng revealed that he had advanced to Sequence Two, Iron Armorer, and transformed into a towering suit of armor.
• The convoy traveled safely and rested for two days, believing they had escaped the pursuing Eerie.
• A survivor screamed about a ghost on the bus, and Yang Yong slapped him until he could explain what he had seen.
• The survivor told Yang Yong and Cao Xianming that he had found and read a love letter from Xiaofang, a girl he had known when he was young.

Yang Yong and the others discovered that an invisible Rule-Type Eerie was attacking a man who had read an old love letter, and Cao Xianming explained how the letter determined who could perceive it. After learning he had a 98% chance of defeating it and that it could strengthen his One-Yang God-Sealing Banner, Yang Yong agreed to fight as the man was moved to an open space.

• The man said he had seen his dead classmate Xiaofang after reading her old love letter, then began choking as an invisible Eerie attacked him.
• Yang Yong's Little Golden Flood Dragon Scissors could not hit the Eerie, but the Red-Clothed Female Ghost struck the empty space and freed the man.
• Cao Xianming identified the threat as a Rule-Type Eerie and said only people who had read the love letter could see or be attacked by it, prompting the other survivors to leave the bus.
• Cao Xianming offered Yang Yong a 98% success rate and said defeating the Eerie would increase the One-Yang God-Sealing Banner's power by 50%, so Yang Yong agreed to fight.
• Zheng Xiaofeng dragged the man off the bus and knocked him unconscious in an open space while Cao Xianming organized the survivors and told Yang Yong he was counting on him.

Yang Yong escaped the Love Letter Ghost’s illusion, defeated her, and absorbed her soul into the One-Yang God-Sealing Banner, which evolved into the Two-Yang God-Sealing Banner. He learned how the banner grows and wondered about the power of the complete Chaos Warship, while Cao Xianming watched the outcome with a pleased smile.

• Yang Yong opened the love letter as the Blood Moon approached and became trapped in an illusion of his dead school beauty.
• Cao Xianming ordered Wang Ying to slash Yang Yong, and the attack broke the illusion, revealing the white-clothed female ghost.
• Yang Yong repeatedly cut the ghost with the Little Golden Flood Dragon Scissors until she weakened into a wisp of soul.
• Yang Yong used the One-Yang God-Sealing Banner to absorb the Love Letter Ghost, and the banner became the Two-Yang God-Sealing Banner, ranked 2,800th among Curios.
• Yang Yong learned that the banner needed six main souls before later ghosts could become their subordinates, and Cao Xianming smiled after the data model confirmed success.

After Yang Yong subdued the Love Letter Ghost, the Two-Yang God-Sealing Banner grew stronger and the convoy celebrated its newfound ability to resist Eeries. Cao Xianming then abruptly turned the convoy back toward danger, while Yang Yong’s growing dread led him to urge the Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace to work faster, only for it to demand energy.

• The Two-Yang God-Sealing Banner devoured the Love Letter Ghost, increasing its might, and Cao Xianming saw the convoy’s plan success rate rise from 60% to 78%.
• Cao Xianming asked Yang Yong to confirm the victory, and Yang Yong announced that he had subdued the Love Letter Ghost, prompting the convoy to erupt in cheers.
• Yang Yong returned to his truck and reflected on the risks of seeking Eeries to strengthen the banner, remembering how the Drifting Fleet had been wiped out by a giant snake Eerie.
• Cao Xianming ordered the convoy to move, but Yang Yong saw that the vehicles were turning back toward the rat swarm and grew alarmed by his sense of impending danger.
• Yang Yong refueled his pickup and urged the Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace to hurry, but it responded with a notification demanding energy.

Yang Yong used the Blood Moon Energy to accelerate the Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace, but its treasures drew Eeries as the convoy crossed a string of dangerous hauntings. At dawn, Yang Yong confronted Cao Xianming, who insisted the perilous route was the convoy’s only way to survive.

• Yang Yong placed the Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace in the pickup bed and used the Two-Yang God-Sealing Banner to channel Blood Moon Energy into it, speeding up its forging.
• Yang Yong drove into an ancient execution ground, where the Prison Eeries attacked the pickup after being drawn by his treasures.
• An Executioner Eerie clung to the tailgate, and the furnace’s golden light swallowed it while it was forging Wang Ying’s Blood-Drinking Mad Saber.
• Yang Yong’s convoy passed through a Funeral Procession and several more waves of Eeries before reaching dawn.
• Yang Yong dragged Cao Xianming from his SUV and demanded an explanation for the dangerous route, but Cao Xianming said it was the only way for the convoy to survive.

Cao Xianming told Yang Yong that the Survival Convoy had a dangerous path ahead and was heading toward Mo Family Village to confront a giant mutant rat for a chance to gain power. Meanwhile, the man in black communed with his master, who agreed to pursue the rat.

• Cao Xianming warned Yang Yong that something in his vehicle had attracted the Eerie, making Yang Yong fear his hidden Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace had drawn them.
• Cao Xianming explained that a man in black had invited the convoy to help kill the giant mutant rat near Mo Family Village, whose flesh could raise supernatural levels.
• Cao Xianming said his calculations gave the convoy close to a seventy-percent chance of survival if it continued, but certain death if it turned back, because danger lay ahead and behind.
• Yang Yong returned to his vehicle and resolved to make the Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace finish forging quickly.
• In a hidden cave, the man in black communed with his master, who spoke through him and complained that the giant rat had rallied its descendants against him.
• The man in black told his master, "This disciple wants to go after that giant rat."

Cao Xianming’s convoy reached Mo Family Village and followed a talking python into the mountains, where snakes and foxes were fighting a massive rat swarm. The group arrived at a battle-scarred cave, where an aged voice welcomed Captain Cao, leaving Yang Yong uneasy about what he was about to learn.

• Wang Ying practiced with a heavy butcher knife while Zheng Xiaofeng warned Old Zhao to keep the tank full, both sensing danger on the convoy’s route.
• At Mo Family Village, a young python stopped the convoy, asked for Captain Cao, and identified itself as a guide to its Dima, Wei Yu.
• Cao Xianming sent Zheng Xiaofeng to guard the buses and followed the python with Yang Yong and Wang Ying into the mountains.
• Yang Yong saw snakes and foxes hunting rats throughout the forest and realized they were conducting an organized campaign against the giant rat swarm.
• The convoy reached a battle-scarred cave, where an aged voice told Captain Cao that it had been waiting for him.

Yang Yong and Cao Xianming met Wei Yu, a Shamanism Sequence practitioner seeking help against a mutated giant rat. Wei Yu revealed the spirit immortals’ plight and showed Cao Xianming the allies he had gathered, then asked whether the convoy would join the fight.

• Cao Xianming led Yang Yong and Wang Ying into the cave, where Wei Yu welcomed them.
• Yang Yong sensed a powerful presence in the cave, and Wei Yu explained that one of his spirit immortals was inside.
• Wei Yu told them that Blood Moon Energy had corrupted many spirit immortals in the northeast, where survivors were being kept as food, and that Shamanism practitioners and spirit immortals needed each other to survive.
• Wei Yu explained that he had contacted four nearby convoys to recruit help against the giant rat, but Cao Xianming’s convoy was the only one that came.
• Wei Yu summoned three spirit immortals—Liu Dabao, Hu Cuihua, and Bai Sanye—and said their descendants could face the rat swarm, but he still needed Cao Xianming’s help to defeat the giant rat.

Cao Xianming learned that Wei Yu’s family could cultivate screaming wax apples, which could grow supernatural power, and saw a chance to improve the convoy’s odds. The chapter ended with Wei Yu revealing that one of his elder immortal’s descendants had chosen someone in the convoy with potential for spirit mediumship.

• Cao Xianming watched the battle probability fall to 55% as he searched for the overlooked factor that might secure victory.
• Foxes brought the convoy bags of screaming wax apples, and Wei Yu explained that the fruit absorbed Blood Moon energy and could be grown in seventy-two hours.
• Cao Xianming tasted a screaming wax apple and confirmed that it slightly increased supernatural power, while his Data Model revealed that only Wei Yu’s elder immortal could currently cultivate the trees.
• Cao Xianming challenged Wei Yu for withholding the cultivation difficulty, and Wei Yu admitted that only his family’s elder immortal could grow the fruit.
• Wei Yu revealed that his elder immortal’s descendants could learn the technique and that one of them had chosen someone in the convoy with potential for spirit mediumship.
• A rat’s cry sounded outside as Cao Xianming’s chance of victory began to rise, and he asked who the chosen person was.

Cao Xianming negotiated for the Survival Convoy to join Wei Yu in hunting the giant rat, then moved the convoy to a safe location for the coming battle. As the group prepared to lie low, Cao Xianming saw the battle’s win rate fluctuating toward failure and wondered whether the changing data could be trusted.

• Wei Yu offered the Survival Convoy Screaming Wax Apples and a share of the giant rat’s grain in exchange for every Transcendent except Cao Xianming helping fight the rat; they agreed to attack the next morning.
• Cao Xianming returned to the convoy with Yang Yong and Wang Ying, while Wei Yu’s snakes and foxes continued killing scout rats around Mo Family Village.
• Cao Xianming used his Data Model to locate an abandoned villa complex where the convoy could stay safely for three days, and Lao Zhang ordered everyone to remain indoors.
• Cao Xianming told Wang Ying, Yang Yong, and Zheng Xiaofeng to avoid taking risks in the battle and flee if things went wrong.
• Cao Xianming watched the Data Model’s win rate fluctuate toward below fifty percent and wondered what it meant if the data itself kept changing.

Cao Xianming’s unstable odds warned Yang Yong, Wang Ying, and Zheng Xiaofeng that meeting Wei Yu could go badly, but they traveled to Mo Family Village anyway. There, Liu Dabao ordered an attack on the rat king during its transformation, and the battle between the spirit creatures and the rats began.

• Cao Xianming told Yang Yong, Wang Ying, and Zheng Xiaofeng that their odds of victory fluctuated around fifty percent and warned them to retreat if anything went wrong.
• The next morning, Cao Xianming’s estimate rose to seventy percent, and Yang Yong took Li Zhi as the convoy’s temporary driver to Mo Family Village.
• A python guided Yang Yong, Wang Ying, and Zheng Xiaofeng to Wei Yu, who spoke through Liu Dabao and revealed that the rat king was undergoing a critical transformation.
• Liu Dabao ordered an immediate attack, and a vast host of snakes, foxes, and hedgehogs surged toward Mo Family Village.
• Countless rats poured from the village and clashed with the spirit creatures as Wei Yu and two young immortals joined the fight.

Wei Yu and his companions reached the Ancestral Hall and fought the rat king, which transformed into a giant after unleashing a devastating shock wave. As the battle escalated, Cao Xianming ordered the convoy to evacuate, while Wei Yu and the rat king clashed in monstrous forms.

• Wei Yu and his companions fought through swarms of rats and Flying Squirrels to reach the Ancestral Hall, while Yang Yong, Wang Ying, and Zheng Xiaofeng hung back cautiously.
• Wei Yu smashed the Ancestral Hall and confronted the rat king, which summoned waves of rats to shield itself.
• The rat king grew larger and released a red shock wave that sent Wei Yu and his two companions flying; Yang Yong retreated with Wang Ying and Zheng Xiaofeng.
• Cao Xianming saw the win rate plunge below thirty percent and ordered Xiao Ma to assemble the convoy and evacuate the villa complex.
• Wei Yu rose with a massive snake-shaped black-energy exoskeleton, while the rat king expanded to hundreds of meters and formed enormous green claws.
• Wei Yu and the rat king collided, and their shock waves killed the creatures fighting around them.

Yang Yong and his companions watched the Rat King’s fight with the elder immortals turn into a devastating blast that drove the snake and fox mad. They fled Mo Family Village with an unconscious girl and a python, leaving Wei Yu behind as the village descended into chaos.

• Zheng Xiaofeng shielded Yang Yong and Wang Ying from the shock waves as the Rat King and great snake tore through Mo Family Village.
• The teenage boy and girl transformed into a seven-tailed fox and a hedgehog, joining the great snake to overwhelm the Rat King.
• The Rat King regained its sentience, cursed Liu Dabao, Hu Cuihua, and Bai San, then exploded in a burst of crimson energy.
• Yang Yong, Wang Ying, and Zheng Xiaofeng survived the blast and saw the great snake and seven-tailed fox become savage and charge toward Mo Family Village.
• Yang Yong’s group rescued the unconscious teenage girl, agreed to take the python along, and escaped in three vehicles as the village was ravaged.