Chapter Summaries

Yang Yong and the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace turned the Many-Treasured Demon Buddha’s attacks into Curios until Cao Xianming’s calculations warned that Mechanical City’s survival probability would soon fall to zero. The Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace revealed a greater power, enclosing the battlefield and trapping dozens of Demon Buddhas within its boundary.

• The Many-Treasured Demon Buddha repeatedly attacked, and the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace swallowed each magical treasure and hammered it into a Curio for Yang Yong to collect.
• Cao Xianming saw that Mechanical City was still deep in Bone City’s Black Mist and warned Yang Yong that survival probability would reach zero if they did not retreat within a minute.
• Yang Yong tried to make the Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace swallow the Many-Treasured Demon Buddha, but the furnace initially remained still.
• A phantom of a larger furnace appeared above the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace and expanded its power to enclose the battlefield and Black Mist ahead of Mechanical City.
• Dozens of Demon Buddhas attacked at once, but their strikes hit an invisible boundary and they could not escape the area the furnace had enclosed.

Yang Yong’s furnace devoured the Many-Treasured Demon Buddha and rapidly opened its apertures, while Mechanical City prepared to escape the approaching disaster. A gigantic hand emerged from Bone City, seized Mechanical City, and faced the city’s desperate all-weapons barrage.

• The Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace swallowed part of Bone City and refined the Many-Treasured Demon Buddha’s origin Demonic Qi, causing its apertures to open in rapid succession.
• The furnace shrank, broke through Mechanical City’s shield, and entered Yang Yong’s body.
• Cao Xianming ordered the jump engine charged as the survival forecast collapsed, and Mechanical City began preparing a Spatial Jump.
• An enormous hand emerged from the deepest Black Mist, shattered Mechanical City’s Electric Arc Shield, and crushed the city in its grip.
• Cao Xianming ordered every weapon to fire, and Mechanical City launched its remaining ammunition at the hand.

Yang Yong advanced to Sequence Three, the Spirit-Possession Realm, while the giant hand and black mist overwhelmed the Mechanical City. He discovered that his soul could survive inside the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace and potentially be reborn through it, as the city's residents watched in terror.

• The giant hand endured the Mechanical City's concentrated barrage without damage, and black mist began corroding the city as the hand tightened its grip.
• Liu Yijun refused to wake City Lord Sevian, leaving Yang Yong as the city's only available hope while he remained unconscious to the crisis.
• The Demon Buddha's essence filled Yang Yong's three hundred and sixty-five apertures, illuminating them and completing the conditions for his advancement.
• A hand drew a wisp of Yang Yong's soul from his body and placed it inside the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace.
• Yang Yong entered Sequence Three, the Spirit-Possession Realm, and learned that he could survive the destruction of his flesh and be reborn through his Life-Bound Artifact.
• Cao Xianming, the Nine Great Elders, the Mechanic Sequence members, and the Shelter residents watched the city's peril in terror.

As Mechanical City was seized by a giant hand from Bone City, Liu Yijun failed to wake the City Lord and collapsed. Yang Yong awakened at Sequence 3, combined his artifacts into the Great Chaos Warship, and fought back against the hands as Mechanical City prepared to escape.

• Liu Yijun drained himself trying to wake the City Lord, but the metal sphere did not respond and he fell unconscious.
• Black mist overwhelmed Mechanical City's defenses as corrosion spread across its metal surfaces.
• Yang Yong awakened at Sequence 3 and found a giant hand gripping Mechanical City.
• Yang Yong combined the Four Yang God-Sealing Banner, Nine Nether Bone Armor, and Nine Nether Yuanchen White Bone Ring into the Great Chaos Warship.
• Yang Yong rammed the giant hand apart, then smashed successive hands while Cao Xianming prepared Mechanical City's jump.

Yang Yong was confronted by the giant in an illusion, where the Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace stopped the giant’s crushing finger. The giant flicked Yang Yong out of the illusion and Mechanical City, leaving him to survive a dangerous spatial jump alone.

• The giant noticed Yang Yong in the illusion and pinned the Great Chaos Warship in place with a finger.
• Yang Yong summoned the Evil Eye Master, who fled, then called on the Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace, which blocked the giant’s finger.
• The giant studied the furnace, muttered, “So that’s how it is,” and flicked Yang Yong between the brows, ejecting him from the illusion.
• Yang Yong was launched out of Mechanical City as it fled Bone City through a spatial jump.
• Yang Yong withdrew into the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace and narrowly avoided a spatial rift that opened where he had been.

Yang Yong struggled to survive in the lethal void after being expelled from Mechanical City, using his artifacts and Yezi’s vines to navigate its shifting spatial rifts. After a rift damaged the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace, he sensed that a strange doll might be his way out and began refining it.

• Yang Yong examined the void and used the Four Yang God-Sealing Banner to send the Red-Clothed Female Ghost scouting, but a spatial rift sliced her apart and weakened her soul.
• Yang Yong had Yezi spread vines through the void, using the severed vines to map the spatial rifts and guide the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace toward safer areas.
• A spatial rift opened beside the furnace, carved a deep gash into it, and chased Yang Yong before finally closing.
• Yang Yong continued navigating the void despite exhaustion and injuries, searching his Curios and materials for a way to escape.
• Yang Yong found a strange doll, sensed that refining it could help him escape, and tossed it into the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace.

Trapped in a gray void and cut off from Mechanical City's energy, Yang Yong conserved his power and refined a doll into a Sequence-Devouring Doll rather than the space-cutting Curio he needed. He considered using the [Cause-and-Effect Scissors] to escape but hesitated over where the cut might lead, then sought out the Red-Clothed Female Ghost for company.

• Yang Yong discovered that the giant had stripped his Mechanical City privileges and reclaimed the Heaven-Opening Giant Axe power he had borrowed.
• After drifting through the silent void for a long time, Yang Yong retrieved a Sequence-Devouring Doll from the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace.
• Yang Yong put away the doll because its power to plunder sequences would not help him open a path through space.
• Yang Yong considered using the [Cause-and-Effect Scissors] to cut through the void, but feared the breach might lead into the Eerie World's lair.
• Yang Yong continued searching for another escape route and, nearing madness from the silence, sought out the Red-Clothed Female Ghost to chat.

Yang Yong escaped the deathly silent void by using the Cause-and-Effect Scissors to cut through its spatial barrier, sacrificing his physical body in the process. He emerged in a world of blood and smoke and heard the same hostile voice again.

• Yang Yong tried to converse with the Eerie inhabitants of the void while waiting for a way out.
• A young woman's voice reached Yang Yong, first pleading that she did not want to die and later declaring, "You... all have to die!"
• Yang Yong traced the voice to a point ahead and poured most of his Supernatural Power and soul power into the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace.
• Yang Yong cut through the spatial barrier with the Black-Iron Scissors, and the backlash destroyed his physical body.
• Yang Yong guided the furnace and his remaining soul through the rift into another world, where he heard the woman's voice again.

Yang Yong survived as a soul inside the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace after attaching it to the unconscious girl he had found, and woke in a truck carrying caged children. The girl, whom the children called Sister Long, came to and tried to steady them as captors approached.

• A little girl shot out a truck tire, but a Transcendent seized her rifle, broke it, and knocked her unconscious.
• Yang Yong used his remaining strength to attach the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace to the girl's clothes before collapsing.
• Yang Yong woke inside the furnace and realized his body was slowly reforming while he remained a soul entity.
• The girl awoke in a truck compartment among cages filled with children, and the younger ones called her Sister Long.
• Sister Long told the children to stay quiet and conserve their strength as footsteps approached outside.

Yang Yong, trapped inside the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace, learned how Long Ya and the other children had been abducted after their caretaker was killed. As the truck carried them to a camp, he decided to recruit Long Ya as his way to act in the world and asked whether she wanted to live.

• Long Ya hid her fear and searched the cage for weaknesses while Yang Yong watched from the furnace and discreetly reached out to her.
• Yang Yong pieced together that the children came from an orphanage, where Dean Granny had protected them until traders killed her and captured the children.
• Long Ya had fought back with a sniper rifle and guerrilla attacks, but the traders ambushed and captured her.
• Yang Yong sent Long Ya life energy, noticed that she was close to awakening Sequence Transcendence, and decided to help her grow stronger.
• Yang Yong began preparing his Great Deception Technique and asked Long Ya, “Little girl, do you want to... live?”

Yang Yong revealed himself to Long Ya as a Sequence Transcendent hiding inside her furnace pendant and offered to make her his disciple. After demonstrating that he could heal her with Life Energy, he told her what she would need to do: become an Eerie.

• Yang Yong spoke to Long Ya from the pendant, and she asked whether he was human or a ghost.
• Long Ya said she wanted revenge for Granny Director’s murder, and Yang Yong offered to teach her if she became his disciple.
• Long Ya asked what abilities he had, so Yang Yong used Life Energy to heal the injury in her chest.
• After Long Ya accepted that the healing showed his abilities, she asked what she needed to do, and Yang Yong answered, “Eerie.”

Yang Yong formed a master-disciple contract with Long Ya, then helped her recover until she awakened Sequence Transcendence. As the truck carried the children onward, Yang Yong woke to find them starving and disabled.

• Yang Yong asked Long Ya to become his disciple so she could hunt Eerie and gather resources for him, and she accepted the master-disciple contract.
• The contract drained Long Ya’s energy, so Yang Yong secretly fed her a Brown Blood Bead while she slept.
• Long Ya’s injuries healed and she awakened Sequence Transcendence, after which Yang Yong hid her aura with a pin and focused on rebuilding his body.
• The truck stopped and a man threw water and flatbreads into the cargo compartment before ordering the children to eat.
• When Long Ya woke, a child offered her water, but she gave it up for the child; Yang Yong then noticed how emaciated and disabled the children were.

Long Ya awakened the Gunfire Sequence, prompting Yang Yong to forge her a lightweight sniper rifle powered by Blood Moon Energy. He brought her into the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace’s training ground to practice, where she cautiously recognized him as her Master.

• Long Ya told Yang Yong that she had awakened the Gunfire Sequence as an Armed One and could shoot with a sharpshooter’s accuracy when given a gun.
• Yang Yong decided to strengthen Long Ya so he could rescue her from the truck before it reached Camp.
• Yang Yong dismantled the Flesh-and-Blood Submachine Gun and reforged it into a lightweight sniper rifle with a Blood Moon Energy-powered magazine and a suppressor.
• Yang Yong brought Long Ya into the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace’s training ground to practice.
• Long Ya looked around warily, then relaxed when she sensed Yang Yong and asked whether he was her Master.

Yang Yong gave Long Ya a Semi-Curio sniper rifle, and she quickly mastered it, naming it Lone Fang. After sending her out of the furnace to hunt, Yang Yong waited as the truck stopped before a bank of black mist and the passengers sent someone forward with an object bearing a greater Eerie’s aura.

• Long Ya clung to Yang Yong and cried before he comforted her and presented her with a sniper rifle.
• Long Ya’s Armed One ability awakened the rifle’s Curio power when fired, and she corrected her aim to hit the bull’s-eye.
• Long Ya practiced with the rifle, named it Lone Fang, and Yang Yong sent her out of the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace.
• As the truck entered barren mountains, it stopped before a road blocked by black mist that the passengers suspected was an Eerie.
• A calm passenger told someone to take an object from a being they called a greater Eerie and approach the mist, and Long Ya listened from the cargo compartment.

Long Ya escaped the cargo compartment and attacked the Transcendents guarding the children while Yang Yong watched from the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace. After the winged boss evaded her shots and pursued her, Long Ya blew up the off-road vehicle to knock him down.

• Long Ya shot the cargo compartment’s padlock and quietly freed herself as Yang Yong counted seven Transcendents among the captors.
• Yang Yong secretly cut open the cargo door, and Long Ya shot and killed the two men in the truck cab through its metal wall.
• Long Ya used Lone Fang to kill three men in the off-road vehicle, while their boss dodged her shots and revealed his iron-feathered wings.
• The winged boss charged Long Ya, who evaded his claws by crawling beneath the truck and escaping into roadside grass.
• Long Ya fired a high-power shot into the off-road vehicle’s fuel tank, causing an explosion that hurled the boss away and tore his wings.

Long Ya fought off the Eerie with the help of her pendant, which transformed into the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace and swallowed it. Yang Yong confirmed from inside the furnace that he had captured it.

• Long Ya killed the remaining members of the squad while Yang Yong watched.
• An Eerie emerged from the black mist after draining the negotiator of his flesh and blood.
• Long Ya took the driver's seat and tried to escape, but the Eerie's mist caught up and trapped her in the truck.
• The Eerie prepared to bite Long Ya, but her pendant blazed with golden light and drove back the mist.
• The pendant expanded into the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace, swallowed the Eerie and its mist, and Yang Yong confirmed that he had captured it.

Long Ya brought fourteen children through the aftermath of her fight with the Transcendents and, on Yang Yong’s advice, returned to search for their supply point. By night, Yang Yong’s furnace was drawing concentrated Blood Moon Energy in the mountains, and Long Ya waited for the danger he had warned her about.

• Yang Yong salvaged the Transcendents’ corpses and fed them into the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace, but their energy was insufficient to rebuild his body.
• Long Ya realized she had destroyed the enemy vehicle without taking its supplies, freed the children from their cages, and shared the meager food she had left.
• Yang Yong told Long Ya to return to the wrecked vehicle and search for the nearby supply point, so she drove back through the gathering dusk.
• Long Ya and the children spent the night in a mountain hollow while she kept watch with Lone Fang, following Yang Yong’s warning to keep people away from the north before dawn.
• The Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace absorbed dense Blood Moon Energy above the hollow, drawing something through the darkness as Long Ya waited for Yang Yong and the Red-Clothed Female Ghost to return.

Long Ya’s fourteen children fell mysteriously ill after a night of Blood Moon energy, and she could not reach her Master for help. A rescue team arrived with medicine, but Long Ya suspected their timing and intentions as Fu Xuyang urged her to let them treat the children.

• Long Ya comforted the cleft-lipped boy by promising Dean Granny would return, though she knew the old woman was dead.
• As dawn approached, Long Ya waited for Yang Yong and the Red-Clothed Female Ghost, but neither returned and the only road out remained their sole escape route.
• Fourteen children began showing fevers, coughing, breathing trouble, and chills, while Long Ya’s pendant and Master gave her no response.
• Long Ya counted the sick children and wondered whether the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace’s consumption of Blood Moon Energy had caused their illness.
• Fu Xuyang and Zhu Yanzhi arrived with the Red Blessing Rescue Team in four trucks, and Fu Xuyang urged Long Ya to let them give the children medicine.

Long Ya reluctantly accepted medicine and food from Fu Xuyang and Zhu Yanzhi after they persuaded her that the sick children needed help. Fu Xuyang invited her and the children to the camp, but left the cost of its protection unexplained.

• Fu Xuyang and Zhu Yanzhi urged Long Ya to accept help, saying the children were sick from cold and Blood Moon radiation.
• Long Ya threatened the Red Blessing Rescue Team with her rifle, then demanded to see the medicine before allowing Zhu Yanzhi to treat a child.
• Zhu Yanzhi took a tablet herself to show it was safe, then gave medicine to the sick children, whose breathing soon steadied.
• Fu Xuyang offered toasted rice, which Long Ya tested by having Little Radish eat first before sharing it with the other awake children.
• Fu Xuyang invited Long Ya and the children to his camp and described its food, doctors, and defenses, then said protection was not free.

Long Ya agreed to travel with the Red Blessing Rescue Team, though the pendant’s strange warmth and the convoy’s behavior made her uneasy. Yang Yong revealed that the team was dangerous and warned her that its members were not human.

• Fu Xuyang persuaded Long Ya to join the convoy, and she warned the boy with the cleft lip not to fall asleep in the truck.
• Long Ya traveled with the children while the Red Blessing Rescue Team’s men eyed her rifle and Zhu Yanzhi described their camp.
• Yang Yong watched from the pendant as Long Ya joined the convoy and suspected the team planned to drug and exploit the survivors.
• Yang Yong regained contact with Long Ya and told her that something was wrong with the convoy because its members were not human.