Chapter Summaries

Yang Yong witnessed the Mechanical City activate its network of Mechanics and curios, preparing to draw power from its enormous axe as a blood-red coffin began to open beyond a spatial rift. The Light Screen cut out just as darkness spilled from the coffin, then returned showing the city’s internal energy flow system.

• Yang Yong saw a giant forge an axe with 365 suns, break it into three pieces, and drive him from the illusion with a single sound.
• The Mechanical City activated its City Lord, Nine Great Elders, hundreds of Mechanics, and thousands of curios to channel the power of its weapon.
• Yang Yong realized the city’s system had been tailored for City Lord Sevian and believed the battle was won.
• Corpse Ancestor Jiang Chen watched the Mechanical City with second-generation zombies, awaiting the outcome of his plan to escape through the Eerie World.
• In the Core Control Room, Yang Yong watched wet black hair and flowing darkness emerge from a blood-red coffin before the Light Screen abruptly vanished.
• Yang Yong cursed and struck the console, then saw the Light Screen return with the Mechanical City’s internal energy flow system.

Yang Yong found the Mechanical City's energy network too complex to understand and summoned Cao Xianming to help. Cao Xianming mastered the control system, revitalized the city, and took Yang Yong's place as Third Elder, leaving Yang Yong content to watch.

• Yang Yong examined the Mechanical City's energy network, felt its rhythm pulling at his heartbeat, and asked Sevian to let him bring in Cao Xianming.
• Cao Xianming arrived, was enthralled by the Core Control Room, and took the Third Elder's seat at the console.
• Cao Xianming reorganized the energy lines and changed their frequency, increasing the city's energy circulation and bringing it to life.
• Sevian transferred the Third Elder's title and mark from Yang Yong to Cao Xianming.
• Yang Yong accepted the change without resentment and settled back to watch the Light Screen.

Yang Yong watched the coffins beyond the spatial rift join together into a vast Ghost Ship made of black hair and the dead. As the ship approached, the Mechanical City began transforming, and a chorus of ghostly cries rose from the channel.

• Yang Yong saw black hair pour from the blood-red coffin and connect the surrounding coffins like living veins.
• The linked coffins formed a gigantic dark-red boat, with the blood-red coffin at its bow and black hair for a sail.
• The Ghost Ship charged toward the spatial rift, filling the Core Control Room with oppressive cold and pressure.
• Sevian issued an alert as the Mechanical City trembled, heated up, and began transforming, prompting Yang Yong to expect its battle-axe form.
• A chorus of countless voices howled from beyond the channel like an eerie battle song.

Yang Yong watched a coffin-made Eerie vessel charge toward the Space Channel as its eyes and pressure overwhelmed the Mechanical City's control room. Just as he neared losing control, an enormous blood-red-lit fist appeared on the Light Screen and shattered the pressure with one punch.

• The Eerie vessel accelerated toward the Space Channel, and its many white eyes fixed on the Mechanical City with hunger.
• Yang Yong looked to Sevian for a response, but she remained motionless and watched in silence.
• Corpse Ancestor Jiang Chen appeared before the Space Channel, facing the Mechanical City, while Sevian gave no sign of recognition or concern.
• The phantom vessel unleashed crushing pressure that left Yang Yong struggling to breathe and fighting the urge to lash out.
• An enormous fist appeared across the Light Screen and broke the pressure with a single punch, allowing Yang Yong to breathe again.

Jiang Chen’s punch shattered the phantom vessel, but the Heaven-Sealing Earth-Quelling, Four Spirits Suppressing Seal stopped him from striking through the Space Channel. As the second-generation zombies appeared, Jiang Chen asked whether the City Lord of Mechanical City was present, and Sevian began responding.

• Jiang Chen punched the phantom vessel, sending it flying and breaking it apart.
• Four colored pillars formed the Heaven-Sealing Earth-Quelling, Four Spirits Suppressing Seal, which stopped Jiang Chen’s fist near the Space Channel.
• Jiang Chen withdrew his fist, remarked that the sealing power had appeared again, and stood aside.
• The second-generation zombies appeared behind Jiang Chen, looking worried and confused.
• Jiang Chen asked whether the City Lord of Mechanical City was there, and Yang Yong saw Sevian begin an intensive calculation.
• Sevian tapped a finger, and Xiao Ying was expelled from Mechanical City by a repulsive halo.

Jiang Chen proposed that Sevian help him break the Four Spirits Seal Suppression in exchange for helping repel the Eerie attack, and the two reached an agreement. Jiang Chen's second-generation zombies charged the spatial rift, where the Mechanical City's Four Spirits Seal repelled Xiao Ying and then struck the next attacker.

• Xiao Ying was expelled from the Mechanical City and returned to Jiang Chen, who said her presence there had served its purpose.
• Sevian asked when Jiang Chen had laid plans in her city, and Jiang Chen offered to help drive back the giant coffin if she helped him cleave open the Four Spirits Seal Suppression.
• After Jiang Chen and Sevian spoke cryptically, Sevian agreed to cooperate with him.
• Jiang Chen's second-generation zombies charged toward the spatial rift, led by Xiao Ying carrying her forty-meter-long Evil-Slaying Blade.
• The Four Spirits Seal formed a vast net before the rift, burned through Xiao Ying's defense, and blasted her backward.
• The middle-aged man in a long gown charged the net bare-handed, and an azure claw appeared in response.

Jiang Chen’s second-generation zombies repeatedly struck the Four Spirits Seal Suppression to keep it visible while the Mechanical City transformed into a massive axe. Sevian commanded the axe to split the heavens, and it began a devastating strike toward the Space Channel.

• A zombie, a winged girl, and a hunched old man each attacked the net and were violently repelled.
• The Shelter survivors realized the zombies were triggering the Four Spirits Seal Suppression to keep it visible.
• The Mechanical City contracted and reshaped itself into a gigantic axe as lightning covered its surface.
• Sevian commanded the axe to split the heavens, unleashing an aura that cut into Yang Yong’s consciousness.
• The Mechanical City spun at tremendous speed, formed the image of a giant wielding it, and swung toward the Space Channel.

The Mechanical City’s axe strike tore through the Four Spirits Seal Suppression and devastated the phantom vessel and its coffins. The blood-red coffin escaped into the depths of the Eerie World with one corner shattered, while Yang Yong witnessed the Mechanical City’s overwhelming power.

• The Mechanical City’s axe light cleaved through the blue-green claw and split apart the Four Spirits Seal Suppression net.
• The axe light tore through the phantom vessel, vaporizing thousands of coffins and filling the area with blood mist.
• The blood-red coffin piled other coffins in front of itself, then fled when the axe light broke through its barricade.
• The axe light grazed the fleeing blood-red coffin, shattering one corner before the coffin vanished into the Eerie World.
• Yang Yong watched from the Core Control Room and marveled at the Mechanical City’s power.

Jiang Chen absorbed the second-generation zombies, including Xiaoying and Mang Dabiao’s Evil-Slaying Blade, and transformed into his true form. As the Four Spirits empowered the great net and its tear began to close, Jiang Chen stood revealed as the ancient beast Hou.

• Jiang Chen wedged himself into the tear in the great net and shouted for the second-generation zombies to return.
• The zombies turned into blood beads and flew into Jiang Chen, while Xiaoying’s blade merged with her bead; Mang Dabiao cried over losing his Evil-Slaying Blade.
• The Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise appeared and strengthened the great net as it began to repair itself.
• Jiang Chen transformed into a colossal, scaled beast with horns, fangs, and a long tail, revealing his true form as Hou.

Jiang Chen struggled against the Four Spirits’ sealing net, but Xiao Ying’s phantom gave him the Evil-Slaying Blade, allowing him to cut one of its strands. The blade began absorbing the net’s power and Jiang Chen’s energy as its pulse grew stronger.

• Jiang Chen revealed his true form and struggled to hold open the net, but the Four Spirits strengthened it and trapped part of his body.
• Xiao Ying’s phantom appeared and urged Jiang Chen to use the Evil-Slaying Blade.
• Jiang Chen grasped the blade, which transformed to suit his form, and struck the net without breaking it.
• Jiang Chen analyzed the net and precisely severed one strand of light with a second strike.
• The Evil-Slaying Blade absorbed power from the severed strand and from Jiang Chen, growing brighter as a heartbeat-like pulse strengthened.

Jiang Chen escaped the Heaven-Sealing Earth-Quelling Four Spirits Formation by cutting off his trapped left foot and fled into the Eerie World. On his way into the darkness, he encountered the Eerie inside a damaged blood-red coffin and seized the female corpse within it.

• Jiang Chen severed the light strands binding his left arm, but the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise attacked him as he tried to escape.
• Jiang Chen cut off his left foot to break free of the net and passed through the spatial rift, escaping the formation and entering the Eerie World.
• Jiang Chen hurried deeper into the Eerie World rather than fight the four spirits, fearing that other titans would join the battle.
• A half-destroyed blood-red coffin fled into Jiang Chen's path, and he split it open with the Evil-Slaying Blade.
• Jiang Chen reached into the coffin and grabbed the female corpse by the neck, unaffected by her piercing shriek.

Jiang Chen devoured the female corpse, restored his Second-Generation Zombies, and led them deeper into the Eerie World. Back in the Core Control Room, Yang Yong and Cao Xianming watched the Eerie flee and realized the world’s hidden truth was far more terrifying than they had imagined.

• Jiang Chen chewed up the female corpse as the surrounding Eerie and coffins fled toward the depths of the Eerie World.
• Jiang Chen’s severed left foot regenerated, and his Second-Generation Zombies re-formed from beads of blood and bowed to him.
• Jiang Chen transformed into a Hou and merged the thirteen Second-Generation Zombies’ power into a phantom beast as they rampaged deeper into the Eerie World.
• Yang Yong and Cao Xianming watched the spatial rift empty and the Four Spirits Seal Suppression repair itself.
• Yang Yong questioned Cao Xianming about what they had witnessed, and Cao Xianming said the truth of their world was far more terrifying than they had thought.

Yang Yong realized Mechanical City could not strike the reopened Eerie Passage because Sevian was incapacitated in her new body. He broke through the platform’s defenses to wake her as Eerie poured toward the world, and Sevian refocused on the crisis.

• Yang Yong watched blood-red Eerie swarm through the reopened passage while Sevian sat motionless on the platform.
• Yang Yong realized Sevian could not wield the axe because she was still adjusting to her new body.
• Yang Yong climbed the platform stairs, then used his Nine Nether Bone Armor, flying daggers, and a fire-powered punch to shatter its invisible barrier.
• Yang Yong’s daggers struck Sevian and jolted her awake.
• Sevian swatted the daggers aside and looked toward the Light Screen, taking in the approaching Eerie.

As the Eerie breached Mechanical City’s final barrier, Sevian appointed Yang Yong Deputy City Lord and sent him to wield the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe. After Sevian entered hibernation, Yang Yong gained access to the city’s hidden information, including a threat imprisoned beneath it and dangers in the surrounding black mist.

• Sevian ordered the elders to control the mechanical claw and attack the passage, but Liu Yijun and the other elders refused because they could not withstand the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe.
• As an Eerie hand reached through the passage entrance, Sevian told Yang Yong to act, and he demanded a reward before agreeing to help.
• Sevian appointed Yang Yong Deputy City Lord, then transformed into a metal sphere and entered a deep sleep.
• Liu Yijun pushed Yang Yong into the City Lord’s seat, flooding his mind with information about Mechanical City.
• Yang Yong discovered that at least one Zombie King was imprisoned beneath Mechanical City and saw enormous shapes moving in the black mist beyond its outer districts.

Yang Yong failed to find a way to turn Mechanical City into a giant axe, so he combined it with his magical artifacts to form a growing War Barge. As blood-red eerie entities poured through the space channel, he sent the vessel to destroy their route into his world.

• Yang Yong saw blood-red entities squeezing through the space channel and realized the invasion was imminent.
• Yang Yong combined the Nine Nether Bone Armor, the Four Yang God-Sealing Banner, the Nine Nether Yuanchen White Bone Ring, and Mechanical City into a Great Chaos Warship.
• The vessel developed new artifacts, including the Six-Yang God-Sealing Banner, the White Bone Sarira, and the White Bone Dao Body.
• Blood-red eerie entities rushed into Mechanical City, and Yang Yong recognized their resemblance to Blood God Children.
• Yang Yong ordered the Great Chaos Warship to ram the space channel, and the eerie entities charged forward to block it.

Yang Yong used the Great Chaos Warship to destroy the spatial channel and repel the blood-red eerie entities, but the strain injured his soul and forced him to dismantle the warship. The surviving entities vanished, and Grand Elder Liu Yijun explained that they had left to hunt survivors in the Apocalypse.

• Yang Yong used the Six-Yang God-Sealing Banner to absorb the blood-red eerie entities blocking the Great Chaos Warship.
• A giant blood-red hand reached through the channel and tried to influence Yang Yong, but he devoured it with the Nine Nether Yuanchen White Bone Rings.
• Yang Yong drove the Great Chaos Warship into the spatial rift, shattering the channel and creating a black hole that pulled in nearby eerie entities.
• Yang Yong suffered severe soul pain from the warship's backlash and dismantled the Great Chaos Warship.
• The remaining blood-red eerie entities disappeared, and Grand Elder Liu Yijun told Yang Yong they had gone to hunt survivors in the Apocalypse.

Yang Yong kept Mechanical City running after the crisis while memorizing the Great Chaos Warship’s structure, knowing the Eerie threat remained. Later, he suffered the backlash from using its power: his bonded magical artifacts began consuming his living body.

• Yang Yong told Grand Elder Liu Yijun to follow the old plan of gathering reserves and keeping Mechanical City running while Sevian slept.
• Yang Yong watched the spatial rift and the Blood-colored Eerie, then vowed to face whatever attacked next as the elders listened.
• Under the Blood Moon, Yang Yong discovered the Nine Nether Bone Armor was draining his body and spreading toward his heart.
• Yang Yong realized the Nine Nether Bone Armor, Four Yang God-Sealing Banner, and Nine Nether Yuanchen White Bone Ring were all turning against him after the battle.
• Yang Yong summoned his team for help rather than trying to withstand the magical artifacts’ backlash alone.

Yang Yong learned that the true Great Chaos Warship might be punishing him for cultivating too slowly, so he launched a massive forging campaign to speed up his progress. After forging his hundredth Curio, he discovered that doing so doubled the rate at which he opened Apertures, but he soon faced a shortage of materials.

• Cao Xianming failed to analyze Yang Yong’s magical artifacts and sensed they might attack him.
• The monk concluded that the true Great Chaos Warship had lent Yang Yong power but considered him unqualified to use the cultivation technique.
• Ma Xiaotong suggested the artifacts were spurring Yang Yong to cultivate faster and might devour him if he did not improve his progress.
• Yang Yong ordered Mechanical City’s Curio Materials and unfinished items requisitioned and began forging Curios in the Core Area.
• After Yang Yong forged his hundredth Curio, the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace doubled his Aperture-opening speed.
• Yang Yong resolved to keep forging, but he ran short of materials.

Yang Yong announced thirty days of free artifact refining to draw materials from Mechanical City's residents, then demonstrated the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace in a citywide livestream. He quickly forged a short spear from Mystic Crystal Iron, leaving the watching citizens stunned and their doubts shaken.

• Yang Yong posted an edict offering free artifact refining for thirty days, but residents suspected it was a trap and brought no materials.
• Yang Yong arranged a livestream and had Cao Xianming bring Li Haijian from the Survival Convoy as the first challenger.
• Li Haijian was stunned by the enormous Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace before presenting Yang Yong with dark gray Mystic Crystal Iron.
• Yang Yong identified the ore, tossed it into the furnace, and completed the refining ritual in under five minutes.
• The furnace produced a dark purple-patterned short spear, astonishing viewers who had doubted the demonstration.

Yang Yong forged Wang Qunli’s late sister’s wolf fang into the Wolf-Shadow Hunting Pendant, demonstrating that the furnace could turn her keepsake into a Curio. The successful forging strengthened an Aperture on the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace and brought Yang Yong closer to opening the next one.

• Yang Yong displayed the short spear he had forged, and viewers argued over whether the furnace or Yang Yong deserved credit.
• The convoy captain urged Wang Qunli to test her wolf fang, which her sister had left her before disappearing through a Blood Gate.
• Wang Qunli brought the fang to Yang Yong and asked him to forge it into a Curio.
• Yang Yong identified the fang’s lingering ferocity and forged it into the Wolf-Shadow Hunting Pendant.
• Yang Yong revealed the pendant’s abilities and risks, then felt the furnace’s Aperture brighten and a warm current enter his meridians.