Chapter Summaries

Cao Xianming deciphered warnings showing that the underground world was a Buddhist array where people were eaten and their emotions and desires extracted, then identified a hidden passage to a sealed chamber. After reading the notebook found there, he began explaining the underground world's origins and revealed that the Buddhist Cultivator Society had prepared for the apocalypse before it erupted.

• Yang Yong gave Cao Xianming the notebook of binary code, and Cao translated its warnings: the inhabitants ate people, extracted their seven emotions and six desires, and worked with the Eerie.
• Cao Xianming deduced that an Underground Architect Sequence-bearer had sacrificed himself to stabilize a small space rather than return to the mad underground world.
• Yang Yong, Zheng Xiaofeng, and Xiao Xuan struck three points together, revealing a hidden passage, and entered it after Cao Xianming checked for danger.
• Yang Yong used his bone whip to retrieve a sealing box from the chamber's skeleton and found an ordinary notebook inside.
• Cao Xianming read the notebook and explained that secret organizations had prepared for the apocalypse in advance, including one called the Buddhist Cultivator Society.

Cao Xianming explained how the Buddhist Cultivator Society split, then collaborated with the Eerie to trap survivors and drain their emotions in an underground world. With Wang Ying still trapped in an arena, Yang Yong resolved to rescue her and realized he might be able to unseal his Curios by using the underground world's rules.

• Cao Xianming revealed that the Buddhist Cultivator Society had created a Seven Emotions Passage, then joined the Eerie and built illusion domains to drain survivors' emotions and feed their bodies to the Eerie.
• A distraught survivor broke down after hearing the truth, and Mang Dabiao knocked him unconscious before urging Yang Yong to continue.
• Yang Yong insisted that the group rescue Wang Ying before her anger was drained, and Cao Xianming focused his deductions on the arena trapping her.
• Yang Yong studied the Cave Assault Squad's notebook and recognized that he was unusually resistant to the underground formation's emotional influence.
• Yang Yong noticed that Mang Dabiao's Evil-Slaying Blade worked because it had been forged underground, and he concluded that he could use the world's rules to unseal the Heavenly Dragon Slash.

Yang Yong reforged the Heavenly Dragon Slash and Two-Yang God-Sealing Banner to regain control of them, then found a method to resist the extraction of the seven emotions and six desires on a memory card. The method required him to draw an intricate talisman using his blood essence, leaving him facing a dangerous and difficult task.

• Yang Yong used the Ten-Thousand-Forging Primordial Furnace to reforge the Heavenly Dragon Slash and Two-Yang God-Sealing Banner, restoring his control over both curios.
• Yang Yong found no way to resist the extraction of the seven emotions and six desires in his notes, so he fed the useless sealing box to the furnace, which turned it into a memory card.
• Cao Xianming said he had made progress deducing the Beast Arena but was not ready to share his conclusions, and he admitted that his iPad was left in the car.
• Zhuo Fujiao offered Yang Yong her phone, whose screensaver was an explicit photo of herself, and he used it to open the memory card.
• Yang Yong found a document titled "How to Use Blood Spirit Power?" and discovered that he could resist the extraction by using his blood essence to draw a personal talisman.

Yang Yong forged Semi-Curio shirts that could shield the convoy members from the force extracting the seven emotions, then Cao Xianming assigned them to investigate the eerie underground world. The group set out to learn its rules and find other convoy members trapped in its domains.

• Yang Yong asked Mang Dabiao to copy a formation that could protect clothing from the extraction of the seven emotions' power.
• Yang Yong's first attempt to forge ordinary clothes failed, consuming the garments while refining the Eerie blood into Curio Material.
• Yang Yong forged shirts from a painted-skin ghost's life-bound painted skin, producing Semi-Curios embroidered with smiling Buddhas.
• The group bound the shirts with drops of blood essence and found that the garments fitted them automatically and could shield them from the extraction force.
• Cao Xianming told the group to investigate the underground world's domains and search for other Survival Convoy members, prompting worries about the danger.

Cao Xianming organized a rescue effort in the Cave Space and took Yang Yong and Zheng Xiaofeng to investigate the Beast Arena. Wang Ying won her 321st match, but her next opponent was a Two-Headed Great Snake whose appearance unsettled Yang Yong.

• Cao Xianming gave the survivors cloth scraps that could open Light Gates and sent Mang Dabiao and Xiao Xuan to search the remaining fields and rescue convoy members.
• Cao Xianming, Yang Yong, and Zheng Xiaofeng entered the Beast Arena to test Cao Xianming’s theory about the field.
• Wang Ying defeated her identical opponent with her Black Gold Bone Blade, earning 321 consecutive wins.
• The Beast Arena produced a counterfeit Two-Headed Great Snake, and Yang Yong recognized it as the creature that had once chased him.
• Wang Ying cornered the snake, which stopped fleeing and swung its tail at her.

Cao Xianming figured out how the Beast Arena worked and had Wang Ying lose on purpose so she would be teleported to another domain. As Yang Yong searched for her, he realized she might be in the tallest building and encountered a frightening presence in its stairwell.

• Cao Xianming told Zheng Xiaofeng that Wang Ying could leave the Beast Arena by deliberately losing a match, then instructed Zheng to enter and take her place.
• Zheng Xiaofeng passed Cao Xianming's message to Wang Ying, who let a mantis-like Eerie wound her and was teleported away after her defeat.
• Zheng Xiaofeng fought a featureless Eerie and the scissors woman in white, losing to the latter and being teleported away.
• Cao Xianming warned that the scissors woman in white would be a major threat outside the arena, then used a scrap of cloth to open a portal and leave.
• Yang Yong searched the domains for Wang Ying, then realized Wang Qian and Wang Ying might still be in the tallest building and hurried there.
• Yang Yong climbed the dark stairwell, where scarlet blood began seeping from the walls.

Yang Yong fought his way upstairs and rescued Wang Ying and Wang Qian from a group of bald men before leading them back to the underground cavern. There, he found every member of the Survival Convoy gathered, and the group prepared to locate their vehicles and escape.

• Yang Yong battled through floors of Eerie that tried to block his path, refining them in his ten-thousand-forging primordial furnace as he climbed.
• Yang Yong found Wang Ying and Wang Qian surrounded by bald men, and Wang Ying cut down three attackers with a paper blade.
• Yang Yong pinned the remaining attackers with the Heavenly Dragon Slash and helped Wang Ying and Wang Qian flee down the stairs.
• The Red-Clothed Female Ghost was injured by the bald men's golden swastika defenses, while the White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost stopped some pursuers with her love letters.
• Yang Yong led Wang Ying and Wang Qian through a gate of light into the underground cavern, where Mang Dabiao had gathered every member of the Survival Convoy, including Zheng Xiaofeng, Hu Xian'er, and Huang Xiaojuan.

Cao Xianming warned Yang Yong and the others that the Buddhist Cultivator Society had discovered them and that their chance of winning was only 20 percent. As the group prepared and waited for Cao Xianming to calculate their next move, Yang Yong forged more than six hundred bone daggers for the Survival Convoy, then noticed Mang Dabiao's forehead mark and got a new idea.

• Lao Zhang and Xiao Ma organized the survivors as Yang Yong and the Sequence Transcendents gathered to regroup.
• Cao Xianming revealed that the Buddhist Cultivator Society had found them, had eyes everywhere outside, and left them with only a 20 percent chance of victory.
• Cao Xianming warned that the Society had existed before the apocalypse and might possess practitioners stronger than Sequence Three.
• While Cao Xianming ran calculations, Wang Ying, Zheng Xiaofeng, Xiao Xuan, Mang Dabiao, and Hu Xian'er trained or honed their abilities.
• Yang Yong used the Ten-Thousand-Forging Primordial Furnace to turn Eerie ribs into more than six hundred sharp bone daggers for the Survival Convoy.
• Yang Yong noticed the mark on Mang Dabiao's forehead and came up with a new idea.

Yang Yong forged Bone Daggers that could suppress Eeries and store their energy, then armed the Survival Convoy and himself with new Semi-Curio equipment. Cao Xianming finished his deductions and revealed a map of the underground world marked with red and black dots.

• Yang Yong reforged six hundred Bone Daggers with a rune that kept them under his authority and let them absorb Eerie energy.
• Yang Yong gave Lao Zhang, Xiao Ma, and Old Zhao Bone Daggers to distribute to the Survival Convoy as temporary loans.
• Yang Yong forged a shrinking turtle-shell shield for Zheng Xiaofeng and made a complete set of Semi-Curio equipment for himself.
• Cao Xianming completed his deductions and displayed a map of the underground world with thirteen connected regions.
• Cao Xianming tapped the map, causing dense red and black dots to appear as Yang Yong wondered what they meant.

Cao Xianming revealed that the Buddhist Cultivator Society and Eerie had surrounded the underground world, including a possible Sequence Four-or-higher powerhouse, and devised a desperate escape plan. He planned to send the Red-and-White Twin Fiends to check whether the convoy’s vehicles remained in the central building’s underground garage.

• Cao Xianming showed Yang Yong and the survivors a map of the surrounding forces and estimated that the largest Buddhist Cultivator Society presence was Sequence Four or possibly Sequence Five.
• The survivors despaired at the encirclement, while Yang Yong gripped the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace and prepared to fight back.
• Cao Xianming revealed that their best chance was to escape in a week by reaching a place to the southeast, and that they first needed to recover their vehicles.
• Cao Xianming calculated that the convoy was likely in the central building’s underground parking garage, but the group could not get outside to check.
• Yang Yong summoned the Red-and-White Twin Fiends from the Two-Yang God-Sealing Banner, and Cao Xianming prepared to send them to inspect the garage.

Yang Yong used the Red-Clothed Female Ghost to scout the underground parking garage and found the Survival Convoy’s vehicles and most of their supplies intact, though Buddhist Cultivator Society members were gradually looting other vehicles. After retrieving Cao Xianming’s iPad, the survivors competed to tell melodramatic romance stories for a bowl of rice, and Zhuo Fujiao’s story activated it.

• Yang Yong sent the Red-Clothed Female Ghost into the central building and shared her vision as she passed through a terrifying underground world packed with Eerie.
• The Red-Clothed Female Ghost reached the parking garage, where Buddhist Cultivator Society members searched vehicles and removed supplies in batches.
• Yang Yong confirmed the Survival Convoy’s vehicles and supplies were mostly undamaged, and found Cao Xianming’s iPad on the passenger seat.
• A monk noticed the Red-Clothed Female Ghost but mistook her for a wandering spirit and waved her away.
• Yang Yong had the Red-Clothed Female Ghost retrieve the iPad and return through a light gate; Cao Xianming then offered a bowl of rice to anyone who could activate it with a melodramatic romance story.
• Zhuo Fujiao told “White Porridge Senior,” and the iPad lit up with a clapping emoji, indicating it had activated.

Cao Xianming used the iPad to plan the Survival Convoy’s escape from the Buddhist Cultivator Society’s underground world, while Xiao Xuan’s punch accidentally enraged the Kraken and plunged the prison into chaos. With the Society distracted, the convoy raced toward the formation’s edge, where Yang Yong threw the Nine Nether Yuanchen White Bone Ring into the black mist to break through.

• Cao Xianming watched a recording of a Buddhist Cultivator Society expert crushing a Transcendent and warned the convoy that their plan depended on avoiding a direct fight.
• After seven days of planning, Cao Xianming had Xiao Xuan punch through a Light Gate, unknowingly striking the Kraken at the underground world’s core.
• The enraged Kraken’s roar shattered the field, freeing the Society’s captives and triggering a rampage by the Eerie as Buddhist Cultivator Society experts confronted it.
• Cao Xianming led the Survival Convoy out of the Central Building’s underground parking garage while the Society was occupied.
• Yang Yong raised the Nine Nether Yuanchen White Bone Ring as Mang Dabiao drove toward the formation’s edge, then threw the ring into the black mist at Cao Xianming’s signal.

Yang Yong led the Survival Convoy out of the underground world, but with the Buddhist Cultivator Society’s forces closing in, Cao Xianming ordered everyone up an isolated mountain road. Near the summit, Cao recognized signs of “Number Nine” and urged the convoy forward, though the road ended at a sheer cliff.

• Yang Yong used the White Bone Ring to break the spatial barrier and led the Survival Convoy out as the octopus Eerie kept the Buddhist Cultivator Society’s Sequence 5 powerhouse from pursuing them.
• The Society’s Transcendents chased the convoy, and Cao Xianming directed the lead vehicles up a lone mountain road despite Yang Yong’s doubts.
• Several vehicles fled instead, but Yang Yong and the tanker truck’s two drivers chose to follow Cao up the mountain.
• Cao studied his Data Model and insisted its calculations promised a way out, though he did not know what it was.
• Near the summit, Cao heard camel bells and smelled desert wind, recognized “Number Nine,” and ordered everyone to keep going toward the cliff.

Cao Xianming led the convoy over a three-hundred-meter cliff to escape the Buddhist Cultivator Society, while its Sequence Five attacked the vehicles with a giant golden palm. Yang Yong and the other Sequence Transcendents broke the attack, but Yang Yong's left arm became covered in eerie eyeballs, and the Sequence Five prepared another strike.

• Cao Xianming ordered the convoy to drive off the cliff, and Xiao Ma, Wang Ying, Zheng Xiaofeng, Old Zhao, and a child followed his lead.
• Mang Dabiao drove his pickup off the cliff, while the tanker truck and several vehicles hesitated as the Buddhist Cultivator Society reached the summit.
• The Society's Sequence Five struck the convoy with a giant golden palm, and Wang Ying, Zheng Xiaofeng, and Yang Yong tried to stop it.
• Yang Yong used the Nine Nether Yuanchen White Bone Ring to shatter the palm, but eerie eyeballs spread across his left arm before the ring suppressed them.
• The Sequence Five raised his hand again and prepared a series of further palm strikes.

The Survival Convoy escaped the Buddhist Cultivator Society by entering Curio No. 009, the Mirage Caravan, which appeared as they fell from a cliff. As the caravan traveled through shifting reality and illusion, Yang Yong discovered its trading panels and a clone offered for an enormous price.

• Cao Xianming’s convoy landed safely in a desert mirage and drove away from the Sequence Five’s palm strikes.
• The Sequence Five ordered his followers to investigate the Mirage Caravan, while survivors who had hesitated regretted not following Cao Xianming.
• Cao Xianming explained that he had recognized the caravan only after hearing camel bells and warned everyone to stay close to it.
• Yang Yong saw that the world became increasingly illusory beyond the caravan and learned that the caravan offered trades.
• Yang Yong inspected a camel’s wares, found a clone with a 97% chance of awakening Sequence Transcendence, and learned its price was one million units of supernatural power.

Yang Yong spent his time aboard the Mirage Caravan trading Bone Daggers and eventually bought a Void Crystal, then Cao Xianming led the convoy away to avoid a danger the Buddhist Cultivator Society might have prepared. They emerged into a silent desert with dwindling supplies, where the harsh sunlight painfully affected Yang Yong’s awakened eyes.

• Yang Yong discovered that the Mirage Caravan’s goods and buyback prices changed with each refresh, and he began selling Bone Daggers to build up Supernatural Power.
• The convoy ran out of fuel, so Cao Xianming ordered the Off-Road Vehicle abandoned and its passengers to join the Bus.
• Yang Yong bought a Void Crystal for 15,000 units of Supernatural Power, then saw another priced at 10,000 and regretted his purchase.
• Cao Xianming warned that the Buddhist Cultivator Society might be waiting at the caravan’s next stop, so the convoy left the Mirage Caravan.
• The convoy appeared in a deathly silent desert, and Yang Yong’s eyes were overwhelmed by the bright sunlight until Mang Dabiao handed him sunglasses.
• Yang Yong asked Cao Xianming what was happening in the desert.

With their Survival Convoy stranded in a foodless desert and nearly out of fuel, Cao Xianming found a route to an Oasis, while Yang Yong reforged magical artifacts to power their vehicles. Yang Yong’s attempt to turn Zheng Xiaofeng’s shield into an artifact left him vulnerable to a mysterious electrical curse, and the convoy set out toward the Oasis.

• Cao Xianming calculated a route to an Oasis, but Xiao Ma and the vehicle owners reported that the convoy had almost no fuel left.
• Yang Yong agreed to make vehicle-powering artifacts in exchange for supplies, and Cao Xianming, Zheng Xiaofeng, and Wang Ying gave him food and water.
• Yang Yong reforged Hu Xian’er’s Soul-Binding Fan, Wang Ying’s Blade, and Cao Xianming’s iPad into artifacts that could power vehicles.
• Yang Yong warned Zheng Xiaofeng that refining his shield could have sinister side effects, but Zheng Xiaofeng told him to proceed.
• Yang Yong used eerie black blood to refine Zheng Xiaofeng’s shield, got shocked by the resulting artifact, and discovered he would be shocked every thirty minutes.
• Cao Xianming urged everyone to move out along the route to the Oasis, and the convoy set off.

The convoy fled an expanding quicksand pit, with Yang Yong and Mang Dabiao helping the struggling bus keep ahead of it. Cao Xianming directed them southwest, where they found a vast trail of human bones and something black beginning to emerge from beneath the sand.

• Mang Dabiao dozed while driving until Yang Yong woke him and warned him to watch for quicksand.
• Cao Xianming spotted the expanding quicksand and ordered the convoy to reverse.
• Yang Yong used the Two-Yang God-Sealing Banner to speed up Mang Dabiao's pickup, then used his bone whip to pull the bus clear of the quicksand's first reach.
• Mang Dabiao plunged the Evil-Slaying Blade into the bus roof and sent its stored blood moon energy into the bus, helping it keep pace with the spreading sand.
• Cao Xianming identified higher ground to the southwest and directed the convoy there.
• The convoy found densely packed human bones stretching across the dunes, while something black began breaking through the sand at their end.

Yang Yong and the convoy fled a desert catastrophe as ants and other creatures raced toward high ground. A water column erupted, bringing rain and strange underground fish, and the survivors gathered the fish while the desert continued to change.

• Cao Xianming told Yang Yong that the ants were fleeing to high ground too and directed the convoy to a calculated safe point.
• The convoy reached an elevated slope as a huge column of water burst from the ground and rain began to fall.
• Cao Xianming warned that danger might be hidden in the water, and Yang Yong collected rain in the containers he had.
• A strange, fanged fish fell from the rain and struck Yang Yong, who killed it with a throwing knife.
• Yang Yong used Heavenly Dragon Slash to kill nearby fish, and Cao Xianming ordered the convoy to collect the edible ones.
• The convoy gathered fish while avoiding venomous creatures crowding the summit, as Yang Yong watched the water column continue to gush.

Yang Yong and the Survival Convoy endured a sudden nighttime flood that turned the desert into a lake filled with monstrous fish and possible Eerie. At dawn the water vanished, and Cao Xianming warned that they had to travel by day and seek high ground each night, leaving Wang Ying asking how long they would remain trapped in the desert.

• Three hours of rain flooded the desert, and monstrous fish devoured carcasses that fell into the water.
• A Blood Moon rose as night fell, and Yang Yong briefly saw a human figure floating on the water before it disappeared.
• Lao Zhang ordered everyone to stay inside their vehicles, while Yang Yong and Mang Dabiao took turns keeping watch through the night.
• The floodwaters receded by dawn, and the convoy gathered a week’s worth of food from the fish it had collected.
• Cao Xianming explained that the desert flooded at night and dried by day, warned against traveling by boat, and Wang Ying asked how much longer they would be in the desert.