Chapter Summaries

Yang Yong forged curios nonstop for Mechanical City’s residents, opening more apertures while the magical artifacts inside him grew stronger. After ten days and 1,037 forged curios, he ordered the Nine Great Elders to convene.

• Wang Qunli accepted the wolf-fang pendant Yang Yong had forged for her sister and thanked him, while the livestream drew crowds rushing to the Core Area with materials.
• Yang Yong forged through the night as the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace blazed and the Nine Nether Bone Armor, Four Yang God-Sealing Banner, and White Bone Ring grew stronger inside him.
• Residents whispered that a shadow circled the platform and that the furnace flames sometimes turned green, while Yang Yong recalled the female ghosts into his body.
• Yang Yong spent ten days forging 1,037 curios from Mechanical City's supplies and opened his cultivation to 180 apertures.
• Yang Yong activated his Deputy City Lord authority and ordered the Nine Great Elders to convene.

Yang Yong met with Mechanical City's elders to discuss its lack of Curio Materials and learned about powerful factions beyond the city. Cao Xianming proposed sending Mechanical City's elite squads out to gather supplies, and Yang Yong considered the dangerous strength of the forces at his disposal.

• Yang Yong asked the elders whether Mechanical City had any Curio Materials left, and Grand Elder Liu Yijun admitted that only private reserves remained.
• Cao Xianming described the Sky Base, South Sea Base, Buddhist Cultivator Society, a secretive gu-raising sect, and the mysterious Longevity Society.
• Cao Xianming proposed looking outside Mechanical City for supplies, and Liu Yijun displayed the combat details of three squads.
• Yang Yong studied the Eerie and Curio symbiont squads and recognized that their members could approach Sequence Four strength at great personal risk.
• Yang Yong concluded that it was time to send the squads out and let them show themselves.

Cao Xianming introduced Wan Qi, whose communications officer sequence could connect devices regardless of distance or signal, and Yang Yong decided to craft a curio that projected announcements onto reflective surfaces. Back at the Survival Convoy base, Yang Yong tested Wan Qi’s character and asked him to demonstrate his ability.

• Cao Xianming revealed Wan Qi’s communication ability and proposed crafting a mirror that could broadcast messages onto reflective surfaces.
• Yang Yong approved the plan and summoned Mang Dabiao and Hu Xian'er to design the curio.
• Yang Yong returned with Cao Xianming to the Survival Convoy base and gathered its Sequence Transcendents.
• Yang Yong used the Evil Eye to confirm Wan Qi harbored no malice, then invited him to call him Brother Yong.
• Wan Qi asked who had a phone, and Xiao Yuxia offered her heavily modified semi-curio phone.

Xiao Yuxia and Zhang Bihuang reconnected with Zhang Wenyuan through Wan Qi’s supernatural phone call, then Yang Yong decided to forge a Curio Computer for communication across the apocalypse. He turned to Ma Xiaotong’s Five-Ghost Transport method and asked whether she could use it if he provided five ghosts.

• Xiao Yuxia used Zhang Wenyuan’s phone to call her, and Wan Qi’s power kept the call connected despite the lack of signal.
• Xiao Yuxia, Zhang Bihuang, and Zhang Wenyuan confirmed they were alive and shared their approximate locations before Zhang Wenyuan’s phone ran out of power.
• Yang Yong decided to have the Ten-Thousand-Forged Furnace make Wan Qi a Curio Computer that could project messages onto reflective surfaces.
• After Ma Xiaotong mentioned Five-Ghost Transport, Yang Yong brought out the Four Yang God-Sealing Banner and destroyed several lesser souls inside it.
• Ma Xiaotong explained Five-Ghost Transport, and Yang Yong asked whether she could perform it if he gave her five ghosts.

Yang Yong sent the Three Great Female Ghosts to hunt escaped Eerie while Hu Xian'er offered a way to help the Five Great Immortal Clans in exchange for Curio materials. He agreed to consider the opportunity as Mang Dabiao mourned the blade Jiang Chen had taken.

• Yang Yong summoned the Red-Clothed Female Ghost, the White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost, and the Little Girl Ghost to capture escaped Eerie in Mechanical City.
• The White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost paused to look at Yang Yong as the Three Great Female Ghosts departed, drawing Hu Xian'er's attention.
• Hu Xian'er told Yang Yong that members of the Five Great Immortal Clans lived in Mechanical City and could provide resources if he forged Curios for them.
• Hu Xian'er explained that Eerie aura threatened cultivated local creatures, and that most of the Fox Clan's over three hundred members had either lost their minds or sealed their cultivation.
• Mang Dabiao tearfully told Yang Yong that his blade was gone, and Yang Yong remembered Jiang Chen had taken the Evil-Slaying Blade before leaving.
• Yang Yong tossed Mang Dabiao a heavy hammer from his storage space.

Yang Yong recruited immortals to provide Curio Materials, tested Ma Xiaotong’s ghostly transport technique, and forged the Blood Moon Mirror to organize Mechanical City’s logistics. He announced a citywide purchase of Curio Materials, and the message began appearing on reflective surfaces beyond the city.

• Mang Dabiao caught the heavy hammer after it struck the ground, swallowed it, and went to work for Yang Yong.
• Hu Xian'er agreed to contact the immortals, and Yang Yong offered to forge them Curios for free in exchange for their materials.
• Ma Xiaotong used a Small Banner to transport a cup across the room with the Five Ghost Transport Art, though Yang Yong learned the technique could not safely target people with powerful anti-Eerie Sequences.
• Yang Yong assigned the convoy to gather Curio Materials and establish an Apocalypse broadcast and logistics system.
• Yang Yong forged the Blood Moon Mirror and had Wan Qi put it on the Mission List, announcing free Curios in return for materials.
• The announcement spread to nearby survivor camps, where a blood-red line of text appeared on a man's blade.

Yang Yong waited in Mechanical City for Curio Materials, then welcomed Fox Clan and Gray Immortal delegations and began refining the items they brought. The animal immortals reacted fearfully to the furnace as Yang Yong fed it a Void Crystal.

• Survivors across the apocalypse saw blood-red words appear on mirrors and other objects, panicked, and fled before reading the announcement.
• Yang Yong waited a day without receiving any Curio Materials, while Ma Xiaotong and the five ghosts got no results from the Transport Technique.
• Yang Yong learned that Hu Xian'er had received animal immortal visitors, including Fox Clan leader Hu Qianqian and Gray Fourth Master of the Gray Immortals.
• Gray Fourth Master presented Yang Yong with a Void Crystal and a heap of discarded objects as a first-meeting gift.
• Yang Yong brought the visitors to the artifact-refining platform, where the towering furnace frightened Hu Qianqian and Gray Fourth Master.
• Yang Yong sent the Void Crystal into the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace, which produced sounds like bones being crushed and cries like a baby's.

Yang Yong forged several Curios for the Gray Immortals, whose gratitude and excitement promised him more materials. The Fox Clan then brought six tails severed by their Blood Moon-corrupted ancestor, and Yang Yong began forging them without charging a fee.

• Yang Yong gave Gray Fourth Master the Half-Pouch Ruin Ring, and the Gray Immortals left eager to bring him more materials.
• Yang Yong forged Curios from the little rats' materials, each with a dangerous cost, and Gray Fourth pledged to remember his kindness.
• Hu Xian'er introduced Hu Qianqian, who brought six tails her ancestor had severed to seal away Blood Moon Energy and protect her clan.
• Yang Yong agreed to refine the tails into protective Curios and waived the forging fee.
• The Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace burst open, sending five streaks of white light into the sky to form a giant fox phantom.

After the Nine-Tailed Fragmentary Records passed to Hu Qianqian, Yang Yong opened the Mechanical City to survivors seeking free Curio forging in exchange for materials or intelligence. News of Bone City prompted him to post an exploration mission, sending eager survivors out to seek materials and a chance to get rich.

• Hu Qianqian received the Nine-Tailed Fragmentary Records and recited a prayer for the Fox Clan as she mourned its ancestor.
• Yang Yong accelerated his forging, and three days later the Apocalypse Broadcast System began announcing the Mechanical City's offer to survivors.
• A seven-person convoy traded meteoric iron for a warning compass, then returned with thirty people and news of Bone City to the north.
• Yang Yong used his Deputy City Lord privileges to investigate Bone City and found it was a newly appeared, high-risk city built from bones where prolonged stays caused soul corrosion.
• Yang Yong posted a Bone City exploration mission offering points, battle merits, or free Curio forging, and survivors rushed out through the Light Gate.
• More convoys brought Curio Materials to Yang Yong, while he continued forging artifacts.

A red-clad figure infiltrated Yang Yong’s quarters and tried to persuade him that Mechanical City was restricting his growth. She offered Eerie Bone City as a path to forge freely, leaving Yang Yong silent and wary as she waited for his answer.

• Yang Yong returned to his quarters exhausted and found a red-clad figure inside, then surrounded himself with flying daggers and summoned his weapons and bone armor.
• The red-clad figure claimed she understood Yang Yong and argued that Mechanical City used and feared him despite relying on his Curios.
• She said Eerie Bone City held rare materials that could transform his Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace, but Mechanical City prevented him from reaching them.
• The red-clad figure invited Yang Yong to settle in Eerie Bone City, develop his forging Dao without oversight, and secure territory and influence of his own.
• She said she only felt it was a shame to see his abilities confined to one city, then waited for Yang Yong to respond.

Yang Yong captured a red Eerie with the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace, and Yezi absorbed its blood, enlarging a World Tree leaf. After a search warrant exposed curio material in Bone City and flagged a suspected Eerie in the Survival Convoy, Yang Yong sent the Eerie Shadow Squad and turned away the Buddhist Cultivator Society, assigning Sevian's Seven Emotions Avatars to meet them.

• Yang Yong summoned the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace and burned the red figure inside it, leaving behind a drop of eerie blood.
• Yezi touched and consumed the blood, turning her wings red, and a leaf on the World Tree Sapling grew larger.
• Yang Yong learned that a bone taken from Bone City's wall was curio material, prompting a huge force from Mechanical City to head there for more.
• Yang Yong found the Survival Convoy's middle-aged fisherman listed as a suspected Eerie Symbiosis Sequence and sent the Eerie Shadow Squad after him.
• Yang Yong refused to meet the Buddhist Cultivator Society and ordered Sevian's Seven Emotions Avatars to receive them.

Yang Yong received Buddhist Cultivator Society visitors and confronted Konghai, the Sequence Five monk who had once pursued the Survival Convoy. Their silent clash ended with Yang Yong’s axe power stopping Konghai’s attack, while Konghai claimed he had seen Yang Yong before; the failed pursuit had cost Konghai his assured place to leave through the reopened Seven Emotions Passage.

• Yang Yong agreed to meet the Buddhist Cultivator Society visitors after Grand Elder Liu Yijun mentioned their curio materials.
• Yang Yong recognized Konghai as the Sequence Five monk who had pursued the Survival Convoy and demanded to know who he was.
• Konghai stared at Yang Yong and released a powerful attack, but Yang Yong used the giant axe’s power to split the Buddha’s palm and wound Konghai.
• Konghai told Yang Yong that he had seen him before, while Yang Yong dismissed the remark.
• Konghai’s failure to capture the Survival Convoy left him competing with two others for the chance to leave through the Seven Emotions Passage, and his search for the Mirage Caravan had become his inner demon.

Yang Yong learned that the Buddhist Cultivator Society had come for the City Lord's Seven Emotional Incarnations, but he accepted their prayer beads for free Curio crafting and planned to use their stay to lure Konghai toward Bone City. He continued forging Curios until he picked up a bone pried from Bone City's wall.

• Konghai recognized Yang Yong as a member of the convoy that had ruined his standing, while Yang Yong recognized Konghai as a powerful Sequence Five fighter.
• Yang Yong sent Cao Xianming news of the Buddhist Cultivator Society's arrival, and Cao deduced that the society wanted the City Lord's Seven Emotional Incarnations.
• Yang Yong learned the society's objective and accepted its chest of prayer beads for free crafting, while Monk Mingdeng arranged for the group to stay in Mechanical City.
• Yang Yong told Grand Elder Liu Yijun about the society's target, prompting Liu Yijun to safeguard the City Lord's Seven Emotional Incarnations.
• Yang Yong tried forging a single prayer bead but found that the beads could not be separated from their strings, then resumed crafting Curios.
• Yang Yong picked up the piece of bone pried from Bone City's wall.

Yang Yong smelted a bone from Bone City and discovered it imprisoned countless souls, which warned him that he would awaken something sleeping and eventually become one of them. After three days of forging, the bone became a Curio, while Yang Yong remained intent on growing stronger.

• Yang Yong put the bone from Bone City into the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace, where trapped souls screamed and warned him not to smelt it or awaken the sleeping thing.
• Yang Yong concluded that Bone City's walls were made from the bones of sacrificed people and decided to keep forging despite the souls' pleas.
• The souls' final warning told Yang Yong that he would become one of them, but he dismissed it and continued refining the bone.
• Over the next three days, Grand Elder Liu Yijun kept City Lord Sevian's Seven Emotional Incarnations in the Core Area while Yang Yong watched the bone's resistance and resentment fade.
• Yang Yong watched the last soul, a little girl, vanish as the bone melted and solidified into a Curio.

Yang Yong used the Bone Ring to sense the dead’s emotions, opposed the Buddhist Cultivator Society’s recruitment, and raised the cost of leaving Mechanical City. A report on the Bone City expedition revealed that the bones taken from its wall began calling the scavengers by name.

• Yang Yong put on the Bone Ring, learned it let him sense the emotions of nearby dead, and told Liu Yijun he would handle the Buddhist Cultivator Society.
• Konghai learned the Seven Emotional Incarnations were hidden in the Core Area and said he expected Yang Yong to seek the society’s help entering Bone City, where he would need cannon fodder.
• Yang Yong publicized how the Buddhist Cultivator Society Formation drained people’s emotions and changed the departure fee from a Curio to supplies of equivalent value.
• Only a scattered handful of the Bone City expedition returned, and one survivor said the city ate people before breaking down in terror.
• A report delivered to Yang Yong described how the bones pried from Bone City’s wall began whispering, speaking, and calling their holders by name.

Yang Yong learned that Bone City lured people inside with whispers and absorbed them into its walls, but he was tempted by the bones’ value and arranged an expedition with Konghai Monk. Konghai agreed only if Mingdeng came too, leaving Yang Yong puzzled and Cao Xianming to handle the negotiations.

• Yang Yong read that Bone City’s walls pursued the fleeing convoy, and learned that only ninety-seven of the three hundred and twenty people who entered the city returned.
• Yang Yong concluded that the city’s bones were living souls seeking replacements, while the convoy’s survivors demanded an attack to rescue their companions.
• Tempted by the Curio Materials in Bone City, Yang Yong asked Konghai Monk to explore it with the Buddhist Cultivator Society.
• Yang Yong reflected on the Bone Ring’s strange summons and his sense that the ring would help him in the future.
• Konghai agreed to go but insisted that Mingdeng accompany him, so Yang Yong handed the negotiations to Cao Xianming and wondered whether Cao planned to flee Mechanical City.

Yang Yong learned that several of his companions had left Mechanical City after finding leads on missing relatives, while Cao Xianming suspected they were also sensing an approaching danger. Cao Xianming revealed that Hu Xian'er and other animal immortals were leaving too, suggesting a disaster might threaten the city.

• Yang Yong received farewell messages from Wang Ying, Zhang Bihuang and Xiao Yuxia, the Monk, and Ma Xiaotong, who had all decided to leave Mechanical City.
• Yang Yong contacted Cao Xianming, who confirmed they had departed and said he planned to take the convoy away as well.
• Cao Xianming explained that Wan Qi had helped Wang Ying find people who had fled with Wang Che, while Zhang Bihuang and Xiao Yuxia had found leads on Shang Kai and Zhang Wenyuan.
• Cao Xianming said the Monk and Ma Xiaotong might be leaving because they sensed danger, despite giving personal reasons for their departures.
• Cao Xianming told Yang Yong that Hu Xian'er and other animal immortals had also been trying to leave Mechanical City, recalling that animals were the first to sense disaster.

Cao Xianming warned Yang Yong that Mechanical City would eventually strip him of his Deputy City Lord position, then explained the plan to investigate Bone City with Konghai’s Buddhist Cultivator Society. He revealed that nearly the entire group was likely to die and that Konghai had been removed from contention to ascend after making grave mistakes.

• Cao Xianming told Yang Yong that his position as Deputy City Lord followed a headless curve and would be erased when a certain event occurred.
• Cao Xianming explained that Yang Yong would stay in Mechanical City during the Bone City expedition and would supposedly use the city’s Heaven-Opening Giant Axe form to rescue anyone trapped there.
• Cao Xianming said the expedition would leave at noon the next day, with Mechanical City flying over Bone City and every member of Konghai’s Buddhist Cultivator Society contingent joining.
• Yang Yong learned that Konghai wanted the curios intended for the Buddhist Cultivator Society to go to him instead of Mingdeng.
• Cao Xianming revealed that everyone in Konghai’s party except Konghai had a ninety percent chance of dying, and that Konghai had been removed from contention to ascend after making grave mistakes.

Yang Yong and Cao Xianming prepared Mechanical City for a journey to Bone City, while Yang Yong planned to collect the bones covering its walls as new Curio materials. As the expedition began, Yang Yong noticed the Bone Ring’s inscription twisting and felt the distant city watching him.

• Yang Yong and Cao Xianming discussed leaving the collapsing Apocalypse and seeking forbidden powers capable of breaking through the world’s boundary.
• Mechanical City entered lockdown and combat readiness, and Cao Xianming deployed robots as the city moved toward Bone City.
• Yang Yong surveyed Bone City and decided to target its bone-covered walls rather than enter the city, hoping to refine each person’s bones into new Curios.
• Cao Xianming deployed the six-member Eerie Shadow Squad, while Monk Mingdeng’s faction prepared to support the expedition against any Eeries.
• Yang Yong examined his Bone Ring, saw the words “Bone City” twist beneath the light, and looked back at the city as its bones seemed to stare at him.

Cao Xianming sent Mechanical City's logistics robots to harvest bones from Bone City's wall while Konghai blasted open a breach and led the Buddhist Cultivator Society inside. As the robots rushed to collect the fallen bones, Yang Yong deployed the White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost with a Curio.

• Konghai approached Bone City's bone wall as the Buddhist Cultivator Society advanced behind him, while Mechanical City's logistics robots began prying bones loose.
• Cao Xianming ordered the robots to ignore the murmurs, collect the bones, and cut off the audio feed after the voices overwhelmed him.
• Konghai struck the wall with a golden palm, blasted open a breach, and stepped inside as a black-mist face welcomed him.
• The Buddhist Cultivator Society surged toward the breach, and Cao Xianming sent more robots to collect the shattered bones before the opening closed.
• Yang Yong released the White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost as his battlefield recorder and gave her a Curio, which became a Weird Artifact in her hands.