Chapter Summaries

Li Qi became an Undead in the Heng family under Mu Xi’s guidance, learning the risks and importance of his True Name and discovering his soul core was unusually fragile to him. After giving Li Qiao Eve Number One, he planned to use the Undead connection between them to redirect the World Will’s attention away from her.

• Mu Xi explained Undead families, True Names, and the dangers of transformation before guiding Li Qi through becoming an Undead.
• Li Qi took Li Qi Heng as his True Name and formed a family connection with Mu Xi, choosing to be her younger brother and calling her Third Sister.
• Li Qi realized he could destroy his soul core himself, unlike other Undead, and suspected his reincarnation ability took priority over it.
• Months later, Li Qi gave Li Qiao Eve Number One, a humanlike golem designed as a possible vessel for her consciousness and soul.
• Li Qi decided he could instead use his Undead Core to find and sever his connection with Li Qiao, causing the World Will to focus on him rather than her.

Li Qi introduced Eve to Li Qiao, then attended the birth of his son, Li Bofan, while secretly moving his family to safety as the World Will targeted him. Liu Xuan arrived in the capital and challenged Li Qi, who recognized a trap but flew out to confront him anyway.

• Li Qi made Eve acknowledge Li Qiao as her master, and Li Qiao sensed that Li Qi was burdened by something he would not explain.
• A servant announced that Bai Yuzhu was giving birth, and Li Qi hurried to the room to witness his son’s birth and name him Li Bofan.
• Li Qi secretly relocated his family and replaced the Li family’s principal members with Bionic Dolls as he prepared for the World Will’s attack.
• Liu Xuan challenged Li Qi above the capital, and Li Qi confirmed that he had previously defeated Liu Xuan.
• Li Qi flew out with several suits of armor, but Sun Wuwang, Dongfang Jing, and Zhao Fan intercepted most of them as Liu Xuan revealed that he had allied with the Qi Emperor against Li Qi.

Li Qi lured Liu Xuan into his Martial Saint breakthrough tribulation, using the Heavenly Dao’s lightning to trap and attack him. As Liu Xuan fell unconscious, the Qi Emperor began carrying out his plan to use the Dragon Vein’s Strange Qi to suppress martial artists across the world.

• Zhao Fan offered to spare Li Qi’s family if Li Qi surrendered Yan Jia Technology, but Li Qi refused, and Liu Xuan confirmed he intended to kill him before confronting the Zhao Family.
• Li Qi flew into the clouds with Liu Xuan and revealed that he was breaking through to Martial Saint, causing the Heavenly Dao’s tribulation to lock onto them both.
• Li Qi’s Yan Jia blocked Liu Xuan’s escape, and the first Purple Thunder struck them while Zhao Fan watched from below.
• The Qi Emperor began using the Dragon Vein to spread Strange Qi through the world and prevent martial artists from advancing to the Grandmaster Realm.
• After a second Purple Profound Thunder struck, Liu Xuan lost consciousness and fell, while Li Qi remained facing the thunderclouds.

Li Qi survived the heavenly tribulation by taking Yin Xia’s golden pills and transforming into a phoenix, breaking through to Martial Saint. After killing the Grandmasters who opposed him, he turned his attention to Liu Xuan in the ruined capital.

• Li Qi endured the lightning bolts, swallowed three golden pills, and transformed into a phoenix to face the ninth thunderbolt.
• Li Qi survived the tribulation and underwent Nirvana, emerging as a Martial Saint while deceiving the World Consciousness into believing he had died.
• Li Qi killed Zhao Fan, then burned Sun Wuwang and Dongfang Jing to ashes when they fled.
• Li Qi realized the Dragon Vein suppressed him to half his strength but believed that was enough to defeat everyone in the capital, including the Qi Emperor.
• Li Qi spotted the badly injured Liu Xuan in the ruins and flashed to stand beside him.

Li Qi killed Liu Xuan, then destroyed the Qi Emperor after he severed the martial path to preserve the Zhao clan’s rule. He left Great Qi to settle overseas and later stopped the Jianghu from exterminating the Zhao Family, while rebellions plunged the dynasty into chaos and Li Qi returned to a quiet life with the Li Family.

• Liu Xuan charged Li Qi in a final duel, then died asking him to spare a spark of life for the Ten Thousand Demon Dao Sect.
• The Qi Emperor used the Dragon Vein to sever the martial path, killing elderly Grandmasters and draining Heaven and Earth Origin Qi.
• Li Qi burned the Qi Emperor and the imperial main hall to ashes, then left Great Qi and planned to settle the Li Family overseas while guarding the northern border.
• The Righteous and Demonic Paths joined forces to target the Zhao clan, but Li Qi stopped them and urged martial artists to preserve their manuals and seek a way to continue martial cultivation.
• Rebel Armies rose against the Zhao Family, Great Qi descended into chaos, and Li Qi returned to the Li Family to live peacefully.

After turning twenty-one, Li Qi found himself without goals until he began building a system panel and later examined the ancient Dust Cleansing Platform. When his young son Li Bofan showed an aptitude for mechanical creations, Li Qi arranged for Hu Bu'er and Wang Ning to teach him puppetry and basic martial arts.

• Li Qi celebrated his twenty-first birthday as the warring factions paused their fighting, then settled into a quiet life while seeking new goals.
• After Heavenly Craft Soul Transfer advanced, Li Qi began trying to create a system panel to track his abilities.
• Five years later, Yin Xia brought Li Qi the Dust Cleansing Platform, and Li Qi judged it sinister, speculated about its ancient use in gathering Demon Race bloodlines, and ordered it destroyed.
• Li Bofan showed Li Qi a wooden toy train he had assembled from his notes, and Li Qi praised his interest in puppets.
• Li Qi asked Li Bofan whether he wanted to learn the path of puppets, then summoned Hu Bu'er and Wang Ning to tutor and protect him.

After completing his Simple Panel, Li Qi learned that his grandfather Li Xue Ren was dying and watched him pass away from old age, prompting thoughts about mortality and the legacy he might leave. When Yu sent the captured Zhao Clan to Li Qi, he let them remain at his home and confronted their eldest member about why they had been brought.

• Li Qi completed his Simple Panel, which recorded his condition, talents, skills, and cultivation methods.
• Li Wenxin told Li Qi that Li Xue Ren was near death, and Li Qi sat with his grandfather as he shared his final words and died of old age.
• Li Qi rejected Yu’s offer to build Li Xue Ren an imperial tomb and wondered whether he had left graves or lasting traces in his past lives.
• A Yu envoy brought fifteen captured members of the Zhao Clan to Li Qi, claiming they were responsible for the martial world’s lost cultivation path.
• Li Qi dismissed the envoy and asked the Zhao Clan’s eldest member whether he understood that the Yu Emperor had sent them to win the martial artists’ support; the man said they were prepared to die.

Li Qi watched the Yu Kingdom enter the Industrial Era, traveled the world, and gradually outlived the people he cared about. After Li Bofan died, Li Qi remained alive as his family’s foremost ancestor, while Mu Xi prepared to reincarnate and hoped to meet him in another world.

• Li Bofan killed the Zhao Family members on Li Qi’s orders, and Li Qi explained how their deaths would win the Yu Emperor goodwill among martial artists.
• Two years later, Li Bofan built the world’s first steam engine, began developing industry as the Yu Kingdom’s Minister of the Ministry of Works, and ushered in the Industrial Era.
• Li Qi traveled across the world, met Westerners who called martial artists knights, taught a young student magic, and returned to the Li Family after proving the world was spherical.
• Li Qi’s parents, wife Bai Yuzhu, twin Older Sister Li Qiao, and other relatives died; he preserved Li Qiao’s consciousness within himself.
• Mu Xi told Li Qi she would reincarnate and use the Heng Clan’s Waiting technique so they could meet in the next world, while Li Qi chose to wait until his lifespan ended.
• Li Bofan died, Li Xing became Head of the Family, and Li Qi remained alive as the Li Family’s enduring ancestor.

As the State of Yu expanded and later lost control of its colonies, Li Qi prepared to leave the world and said farewell to Yin Xia and Hu Bu'er. He died quietly in a snowy mountain cave, and Hu Bu'er later pursued his dream of creating living dolls, setting the stage for the Doll Rebellion as Li Qi's soul traveled to another world.

• Li Qi told Li Huaxing that his time was nearly over, gave him advice about leading the Li family, and left a puppet double behind before departing for the capital.
• At a museum in the capital, Li Qi saw how people remembered his history and reunited with Yin Xia, who told him she was near death and regretted never marrying him.
• Li Qi spent two days with Yin Xia, then traveled to a snowy mountain cave and told Hu Bu'er to preserve his humanity and look after the Li family.
• Li Qi's breathing stopped, and Hu Bu'er bowed to him before leaving without taking his body.
• After Li Qi died, Hu Bu'er expanded doll production and eventually created dolls with a trace of life, beginning the events that would become the Doll Rebellion.
• Li Qi's soul journeyed to the next world.

After reincarnating as a child in a world resembling Earth, Li Qi escaped human traffickers and used his remaining mental powers to force their leader to record his crimes and turn himself in. He realized his memories of this life were mostly missing and that the world heavily suppressed his abilities, leaving him to assess his unfamiliar circumstances.

• Zhang Xiangnan and his accomplices brought an unconscious child into their hideout, intending to sell him to buyers seeking a son.
• The child woke, killed the bearded man and the woman with a broken bottle, and immobilized Zhang Xiangnan.
• Li Qi questioned Zhang Xiangnan about his identity, then hypnotized him into documenting his trafficking crimes and accomplices and turning himself in.
• Li Qi recognized that he had reincarnated through the Undead Race, but the blow to his head had restored his memories while leaving him unable to remember his family.
• Li Qi treated his injured forehead and found that Heavenly Craft Soul Transfer still let him control ordinary people, though his other abilities were suppressed.
• Li Qi watched the news and concluded that this peaceful world's countries and geography resembled Earth, despite different names and more advanced technology.

After recovering his memories, Li Qi learned that his present-world identity was Meng An and reunited with his only relative, Zhang Fengyun. He planned to attend school, cultivate the Undying Heart Scripture, and prepare for strange celestial changes, while police investigated the trafficker who had abducted him.

• Li Qi went to the police station, where officers identified him as Meng An and contacted his grandmother, Zhang Fengyun.
• Zhang Fengyun took Meng An home, explained his family history, and cared for him as he recovered from his head injury and memory loss.
• Li Qi learned he would return to elementary school and saw news of enormous total solar eclipses, which he suspected signaled changes in the world.
• Li Qi planned to cultivate the Undying Heart Scripture and find a way to earn money, while he could only faintly sense Mu Xi's location.
• At the Municipal Public Security Bureau, Captain Liu watched footage showing Zhang Xiangnan die by repeatedly smashing his head against a wall in detention.
• A policewoman told Captain Liu that the child connected to Zhang Xiangnan's kidnapping had already gone home, revealing that Li Qi had been the child in the case.

Police investigated Zhang Xiangnan’s trafficking group and the mysterious release of Meng An, while Li Qi recognized the world’s sudden darkness as a possible sign of the 2012 apocalypse. He planned to go to Ao City to gamble for money, as Zhang Fengyun broke with her secretive organization rather than risk involving her grandson.

• Captain Liu learned that Meng An had disappeared after being followed by Zhang Xiangnan’s group, then visited the boy while officers continued investigating the traffickers.
• Li Qi considered skipping grades but reconsidered whether a sudden change would alarm Zhang Fengyun.
• When darkness covered the sky, Li Qi suspected the 2012 apocalypse was real and told Wang He to arrange a trip to Ao City so he could gamble for money.
• Little Zhao warned Zhang Fengyun that her organization had opened an ancient seal, causing the Day of Darkness and the coming Eternal Night Winter, and urged her to evacuate.
• Zhang Fengyun refused to flee with the organization, smashed her antique phone, and chose to protect her grandson by severing ties with it.

Li Qi took Wang He to Ao City intending to make money gambling, but a legitimate casino barred him for being a minor, so they entered an underground gambling den instead. After Wang He won several big bets, the dealer tried to rig the dice, but the final roll still came up six sixes and big.

• Li Qi arranged visas to Ao City under the pretense of a summer camp and dismissed a police officer asking about the human traffickers.
• Li Qi and Wang He were turned away from the legitimate casino because Li Qi was a minor, then followed a red-haired young man to an underground gambling den.
• Li Qi used Wang He's bets to win six consecutive rounds of big, drawing the attention of the dealer and other gamblers.
• Li Qi told Wang He to bet nearly a million on big, and the dealer froze when the dice showed six sixes.

Wang He won more than six million at the underground casino while Li Qi prepared to keep gambling until he reached twenty million or took control of the casino. As Li Qi began a mahjong match against casino master Sun Xiaoqing, a critically ill gambler collapsed and appeared to spread a deadly virus, forcing Li Qi to flee the table.

• Wang He won more than six million at dice, triggering the casino manager to order staff to stop him from leaving and summon Teacher Sun.
• Li Qi decided to stay until he won twenty million and considered using his remaining Spiritual Seeds against the casino's backer.
• Li Qi chose mahjong, silenced a mocking gambler with Spiritual Pressure, and noticed a deathly pale man watching the table.
• Sun Xiaoqing joined the game, and Li Qi recognized that she could not sense the momentum of the tiles as he could.
• The deathly ill gambler collapsed into the table and bled profusely, so Li Qi had Wang He carry him away to avoid a suspected lethal contagious virus.

Li Qi and Wang He escaped the Underground Casino after a gambler collapsed with a suspected infectious disease, then returned to Suhe City with their winnings. At the airport, police told Li Qi that Zhang Fengyun had died in a traffic accident.

• Li Qi used the Suggestion Spell to get the casino to deposit the winnings into Wang He's account, and the two left after a gambler collapsed bleeding.
• Sun Xiaoqing suspected Wang He or Meng An had used hypnosis, while a casino guard returned from the hospital with strange watery footprints beneath him.
• After three days of isolation, Li Qi had Wang He pay taxes on the winnings and planned to buy a house and supplies in Suhe City.
• Li Qi and Wang He returned to Suhe City with the summer-camp students, and Li Qi planned to leave school and stay home.
• Captain Liu and another officer met Li Qi at the airport and told him Zhang Fengyun had died after a traffic accident.

After Zhang Fengyun was murdered, Li Qi investigated her belongings while arranging for Officer Liu Cheng to become his guardian. Their search uncovered a smashed satellite phone, giving Li Qi a new clue about why Zhang Fengyun was targeted.

• Meng An asked Liu Cheng how Zhang Fengyun died, and Liu Cheng explained that a truck with false plates had struck her and the driver had escaped.
• Li Qi concluded that Zhang Fengyun had been deliberately murdered and asked Liu Cheng to become his guardian.
• Li Qi planted a Spiritual Seed in Liu Cheng so that Liu Cheng would regard him as someone close and accept his actions naturally.
• Li Qi searched Zhang Fengyun's belongings for clues but found no diary or suspicious documents, only an old telephone book he planned to investigate.
• Liu Cheng searched the trash and found Zhang Fengyun's smashed satellite phone, surprising Li Qi.

Li Qi and Wang He were taken into quarantine after a strange disease spread from the casino in Ao City, while Li Qi learned what he could from the officials. Liu Cheng investigated Li Qi’s detention and challenged Zhao Chenghu’s claim to be with the National Security Bureau.

• Li Qi asked Liu Cheng to have Zhang Fengyun’s destroyed Satellite Phone examined, then fell asleep while remembering his parents and Zhang Fengyun.
• National Security Bureau officers took Wang He and his wife for testing after explaining that a deadly disease had spread from the casino and that Wang He had been close to Patient Zero.
• Li Qi was also taken for quarantine and learned that the disease had spread through parts of Ao City and killed many people.
• After delivering the Satellite Phone to the Technical Department, Liu Cheng went to question Zhao Chenghu about Li Qi’s isolation.
• Liu Cheng told Zhao Chenghu that he suspected he was not from the National Security Bureau, and Zhao Chenghu said the matter was classified.

During isolation, Li Qi ordered Liu Cheng to prepare an Apocalypse Fortress and searched online for strange incidents that followed the Day of Darkness. He suspected these growing supernatural phenomena would cause the apocalypse and considered adding a rule against communicating with outsiders.

• Liu Cheng told Li Qi that the people overseeing their isolation likely belonged to a secret state department investigating special incidents.
• Li Qi gave Liu Cheng Wang He's bank card and instructed him to buy a secluded house and turn it into an Apocalypse Fortress within two months.
• Zhao Chenghu and a team member confirmed Li Qi and Wang He showed no signs of water contamination, but continued observing Wang He and Meng An because their behavior seemed suspicious.
• Li Qi searched online and found reports of disappearances, an insomnia outbreak, and people dying after dreaming of the same person following the Day of Darkness.
• Li Qi concluded that these strange incidents might lead to the apocalypse and considered adding a no-communication-with-outsiders rule to his Safe House.

After leaving quarantine, Li Qi and Liu Cheng prepared for the possible apocalypse while Li Qi built puppet backups. At a fast-food restaurant, Sun Xiaoqing approached Li Qi with information about Sun Fengyun’s death, and he began a card game to question her about Curies.

• Li Qi left quarantine and completed guardianship procedures with Liu Cheng, who used his connections to secure a fortified villa and stockpile supplies.
• Li Qi bought puppet-making materials and spent the following month working on puppets, the basement, and other preparations.
• After a required visit to the Children's Protection Association, Li Qi and Liu Cheng stopped at a mall, where Li Qi asked for fast food, ice cream, and desserts.
• Sun Xiaoqing approached Li Qi, proposed a card game with questions as stakes, and claimed she knew why Sun Fengyun had died.
• Li Qi’s gaze overwhelmed Sun Xiaoqing, and she asked whether he had a Curio.
• Li Qi expertly shuffled Sun Xiaoqing’s cards and began their game by asking what a Curio was.

Li Qi used a card game to get Sun Xiaoqing to explain the strange-item agencies and the Ancient Ruins Association, then learned that his grandmother Zhang Fengyun had been a powerful member who may have been assassinated by her rivals. Sun Xiaoqing said she had come to meet and protect him, while Li Qi considered whether to implant a Spiritual Seed in her.

• Sun Xiaoqing explained that strange items had emerged alongside ancient ruins and listed the major countries’ agencies, including Huaxia’s Bureau 057.
• Sun Xiaoqing identified herself as a member of the Ancient Ruins Investigation Association and explained its ranks and corporate backers, Blackwater Bio and Silver Tech.
• Sun Xiaoqing revealed that her codename was King of a Thousand and that Zhang Fengyun had once been qualified to compete for a place among the Twelve Stars.
• Li Qi suspected the Ancient Ruins Association had caused Zhang Fengyun’s death, and Sun Xiaoqing said she believed one of Zhang Fengyun’s rivals had acted independently.
• Sun Xiaoqing explained that she had come to meet Li Qi because Zhang Fengyun had once cared for her, and Li Qi considered implanting a Spiritual Seed in her.