Chapter Summaries

Ling Ye examined the Sea of Light Casting and discovered that Primordial power had contaminated Unit Zero, causing its commands to conflict and its logical core to collapse. He offered to temporarily stabilize the Silver Giant Cocoon and remove some of the contamination, then prepared to begin extracting the Primordial fragments’ power.

• Ling Ye filtered the Sea of Light Casting’s vast knowledge archive for records about malfunctions, the Primordial, and command conflicts.
• Ling Ye learned that an ancient Primordial Mighty One had fought the Mechanical Realm, leaving fragments behind and contaminating Unit Zero with forces tied to karma and fate.
• Ling Ye discovered that Unit Zero’s core commands had become disordered, making it both attack alien lifeforms and seek outside help while the fragments continued to erode it.
• Ling Ye told the Silver Giant Cocoon that full repair was beyond his plans, but he could suppress its conflicting commands and reduce the fragments’ influence.
• The Silver Giant Cocoon accepted Ling Ye’s offer, and Ling Ye prepared to extract the power of the Primordial fragments.

Ling Ye cleared the Primordial fragments corroding Unit Zero and suppressed the chaotic commands in its core, stabilizing the Silver Giant Cocoon. In return, Unit Zero opened its Mechanical Realm knowledge database, then began constructing a stable passage to send Ling Ye home.

• Ling Ye purified the residual power in the Primordial fragments and guided the recovered energy into his ring.
• Ling Ye entered Unit Zero’s consciousness core and suppressed its most dangerous commands, reducing the logical conflicts.
• Unit Zero thanked Ling Ye and opened its authorized knowledge database to him.
• Ling Ye asked Unit Zero to send him back, and it explained that the Starlight Beacon’s reserve energy was spent.
• Unit Zero drew energy from the Core Furnace and began forming a stable spatial gate while Ling Ye waited.

Ling Ye returned safely to Earth after helping Unit Zero stabilize a passage, leaving behind a recording of his natural energy ripples as compensation. Back home, he learned The Collector had prepaid three customized-tier gift credits and decided to rest before confronting the schemers.

• Unit Zero asked Ling Ye to let the passage record his natural energy ripples, and he agreed before returning through it.
• Unit Zero stored the data from Ling Ye’s aura for analysis after the channel closed.
• Ling Ye reappeared in his villa, confirmed he was unharmed, and found that his Glimmering Starlight Ring had lost much of its energy.
• Su Wanqing welcomed Ling Ye home, and he told her he had been on a distant business trip repairing a computer.
• The ring announced that The Collector had prepaid three customized-tier gift credits, and Ling Ye resolved to rest before dealing with the gifts and seeking payback from The Collector and Flame of Inheritance.

After returning from the Mechanical Realm, Ling Ye received Long Yuan’s thanks and negotiated compensation from The Collector and Flame of Inheritance. The chapter ended when a fleeting crack of annihilating nihility appeared in the sky, alarming Ling Ye and Cuihua.

• Ling Ye woke at Su Wanqing’s home, where Li Muyao delivered Long Yuan’s condolences and reported that Long Yuan had defeated the Corrupt Mire forces and sealed the Silent Corridor’s core region.
• Ling Ye ate one seven-colored Nine Revolutions Soul Returning Pill and gave the remaining pills to Su Wanqing.
• Ling Ye complained to The Collector and Flame of Inheritance about his forced trip to the Mechanical Realm, and they promised three Custom Gifts, an upgrade to his ring, and access to the realm’s knowledge database.
• Cuihua cried out in fear when a thin black crack appeared in the sky and vanished almost immediately.
• Ling Ye sensed the crack’s aura and identified it as the Mark of Annihilation.

Ling Ye investigated the appearance of the Mark of Annihilation, then tried to rest at home while monitoring the situation. He discovered a distant dimensional bubble slowly losing its existence and began preparing to ask The Collector for a way to counter the threat.

• Ling Ye recognized the sky’s vanishing rift as the Mark of Annihilation and wondered whether his use of holy power, the Gate of Reverse Flow, or the tree in Kunlun had drawn it there.
• Ling Ye calmed Cuihua and reassured Su Wanqing, then decided to take work-injury leave and stay home.
• Ling Ye lounged at home, studied the Mechanical Realm knowledge catalog, and repeatedly pressed The Collector’s customer service to deliver his three Custom Gift credits.
• Longyuan sent Ling Ye get-well gifts, while the Blazing Hell, Silent Corridor, and corrupt marsh showed no new developments.
• Ling Ye observed a distant dimensional bubble gradually losing its existence in a way resembling the Mark of Annihilation.
• Ling Ye decided to prepare for the spreading threat and consider requesting something from The Collector that could counter it.

Ling Ye received the Void Gazing Mirror, a device for detecting and preserving information threatened by void forces, and used it to find a lingering trace of the Mark of Annihilation. An emergency bulletin warned that such phenomena were increasing exponentially, suggesting a Great Annihilation cycle or an artificially guided Rule Cleansing.

• Ling Ye demanded that The Collector immediately provide a gift to help him detect and counter void threats.
• While waiting, Ling Ye studied the Mechanical Realm’s theories about existence and nonexistence and considered whether the Mark of Annihilation erased information or reset rules.
• The Collector delivered a Void Gazing Mirror that could warn of void threats, reveal their traces, and preserve existence information three times.
• Ling Ye bound the mirror and used it to spot and track a faint trace of the Mark of Annihilation toward outer space.
• The ring delivered an emergency bulletin reporting an exponential rise in Mark of Annihilation events and warning of a possible Great Annihilation cycle or Rule Cleansing.

Ling Ye used the Void Gazing Mirror to discover a deliberate void singularity eroding Death Valley and the Star Vortex Ancient Tree. After a glimpse of a gigantic eyeball in a realm of nothingness shattered the mirror’s lens, he prepared to destroy the singularity himself.

• Ling Ye scanned the world with the Void Gazing Mirror and detected a powerful void presence above Kunlun Death Valley.
• Ling Ye found that a stable singularity was releasing void power to erode the Star Vortex Ancient Tree and the surrounding space.
• Ling Ye used Trace Observation on the singularity and saw that it drew power directly from space, making its creator difficult to trace.
• Ling Ye glimpsed a gigantic black-crystal eyeball in a realm of emptiness, and its gaze cracked the Void Gazing Mirror and wounded his consciousness.
• Ling Ye withdrew the damaged mirror and gathered holy power, intending to destroy the singularity and deal with its mastermind later.

Ling Ye destroyed the void singularity above Death Valley with the Primal Sacred Flame, then received a warning from the entity behind the Void Gazing Mirror that the irreversible “Zeroing” process would continue. He strengthened the Star Vortex Ancient Tree’s defenses and returned to the villa to consider how to stop the threat.

• Ling Ye used the Primal Sacred Flame to erase the void singularity and dissolve the Void Curtain over Death Valley.
• The Star Vortex Ancient Tree recovered as the void’s pressure faded.
• The entity behind the “eyeball” sent Ling Ye a warning to stop interfering with the irreversible “Zeroing” process, and Ling Ye rejected its threat.
• Ling Ye searched the area, confirmed no void power or new anchor point remained, and reinforced the Star Vortex Ancient Tree’s protective seal.
• Ling Ye returned to the villa to study the threat of Zeroing and plan his response.

After the Void Gazing Mirror was ruined by the entity associated with “reset,” Ling Ye sought a way to resist the threat and accepted a dangerous artifact from the Collector. He left for the asteroid belt to retrieve the Core of Paradox, whose effects remained unknown.

• Ling Ye inspected the shattered Void Gazing Mirror and considered how to respond to the threat of “reset.”
• Ling Ye activated Custom Gift and demanded an item that could counter or withstand reset, including compensation for his broken mirror.
• The Collector offered the dangerous Core of Paradox, which could distort fundamental laws but might also destabilize its user.
• Ling Ye accepted the Collector’s coordinates to the Core of Paradox in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
• Ling Ye told Cuihua to watch the house and used a Space Jump to head for the asteroid belt.

Ling Ye traveled to an asteroid in the belt and retrieved the [Core of Paradox] after overpowering its reality-distorting resistance. He sealed it inside the [Glimmering Starlight Ring] and headed back toward Earth, wondering what The Collector would send as the third Custom Gift.

• Ling Ye used his spiritual sense to locate a twisted fold in space at the asteroid’s core.
• Ling Ye found the [Core of Paradox], whose contradictory nature distorted his perception and the surrounding space.
• Ling Ye’s rune chains disintegrated when the [Core of Paradox] unleashed a distorted force field.
• Ling Ye crushed the force field with sacred power, seized the core, and sealed it inside the [Glimmering Starlight Ring].
• Ling Ye left the asteroid for Earth and anticipated The Collector’s third Custom Gift.

Ling Ye returned to his villa with the sealed Core of Paradox and decided to keep it stored away as a dangerous, mostly useless artifact. When two Longyuan representatives arrived, he let them into his home and prepared tea brewed from Chaos Green Lotus Leaf, leaving their safety uncertain.

• Ling Ye examined the Core of Paradox and rejected it as an offensive, defensive, and cultivation tool, deciding to keep it sealed in his Glimmering Starlight Ring.
• Ling Ye sensed two visitors politely contacting the formation around his villa and recognized them as representatives of Longyuan.
• Ling Ye opened a path through the formation and invited the old cultivator and the suited young man inside for tea.
• Ling Ye prepared two cups with Chaos Green Lotus Leaf tea and wondered whether the Longyuan visitors would survive drinking it.

Zhang Mingyuan and Shen Zhuiyun visited Ling Ye to establish contact and ask about strange energy fluctuations at ancient sites. After Ling Ye’s tea transformed their cultivation, he confirmed activity at Kunlun Mountain and told them to watch and wait.

• Zhang Mingyuan introduced himself and Shen Zhuiyun as representatives of the authorities and explained their visit to Ling Ye.
• Ling Ye served them tea made from Chaos Green Lotus leaves, and its Dao resonance sent Zhang Mingyuan into a vision while purifying Shen Zhuiyun’s supernatural power.
• Zhang Mingyuan awakened with his cultivation greatly strengthened, and Shen Zhuiyun’s power became stronger and easier to control.
• Zhang Mingyuan thanked Ling Ye and explained that the authorities had detected abnormal energy fluctuations at ancient sites, especially in the Kunlun Mountain range.
• Ling Ye confirmed that Kunlun Mountain had shown some activity and advised Zhang Mingyuan and Shen Zhuiyun to watch and wait.

Ling Ye gave Zhang Mingyuan and Shen Zhuiyun his food-delivery number as an emergency contact after explaining that his tea had already strengthened them. After they left, Ling Ye considered visiting Kunlun Mountain for a picnic and went to take a nap.

• Zhang Mingyuan asked Ling Ye for guidance and a way to contact him if the Kunlun Anomaly became unmanageable.
• Ling Ye told Zhang Mingyuan and Shen Zhuiyun that the tea they had drunk was his guidance, then handed Zhang Mingyuan his food-delivery number for emergencies.
• Zhang Mingyuan and Shen Zhuiyun left Ling Ye's villa, and Zhang Mingyuan ordered Longyuan to secure the number and monitor Kunlun without approaching its core area.
• Ling Ye thought Kunlun Mountain might make a good picnic spot and headed to his bedroom for an afternoon nap.

Ling Ye planned a picnic in a remote Kunlun valley and invited Su Wanqing to join him in choosing food. After Ling Ye vanished to shop, Su Wanqing examined the rare tea he had left behind, unaware of its value or the potential danger awaiting at Kunlun.

• Ling Ye woke refreshed and chose a secluded, scenic valley in the western Kunlun Mountains as his picnic spot.
• Ling Ye selected enchanted picnic equipment from the Primordial Warehouse and decided to buy ordinary ingredients in town.
• Su Wanqing arrived with company reports, and Ling Ye invited her to join his Kunlun picnic.
• Su Wanqing asked how Ling Ye would reach Kunlun, and he said he would fly there.
• Su Wanqing asked whether Longyuan's interest in cooperating with her company was because of Ling Ye, and he told her to cooperate normally and let them handle any trouble.
• Ling Ye vanished to go shopping, while Su Wanqing sat down to work and tasted the lingering fragrance of Chaos Green Lotus tea without recognizing it.

Ling Ye enjoyed a barbecue picnic in a secluded Kunlun Valley while discovering that a nearby ancient ruin was beginning to awaken. He estimated it would take three to five days to open and continued his meal, leaving the disturbance to grow unnoticed.

• Ling Ye set up a picnic in the valley and grilled meat over Phoenix Nirvana firewood.
• Ling Ye sensed a spatial ripple from a snowy mountain hollow northwest of the valley.
• Ling Ye discovered an ancient ruin sealed beneath the hollow and identified its restriction as weakened.
• Ling Ye estimated the ruin would awaken in three to five days and decided it would not interrupt his picnic.
• A stronger spatial fluctuation briefly came from the hollow, but Ling Ye ignored it and continued eating.

After Su Wanqing accidentally drank the residue of Ling Ye’s Chaos Green Lotus tea, he stabilized her awakening spiritual energy and helped her become a cultivator. She regarded him with awe and near-fanatical faith, while Ling Ye worried that she might become his first believer.

• After Ling Ye returned from his Kunlun picnic, he sensed Su Wanqing suffering from the effects of the tea residue she had drunk.
• Ling Ye used his power to calm Su Wanqing’s energy and guide it into a stable cultivation path.
• Su Wanqing awoke as a Qi Refining cultivator, and Ling Ye explained her new abilities and warned her not to spread his technique or take disciples.
• Su Wanqing thanked Ling Ye and promised to follow his instructions, while her awe of him grew into near-fanatical faith.
• Ling Ye left to avoid encouraging her devotion, and Su Wanqing resolved to embrace the new world he had shown her.

Ling Ye regretted making Su Wanqing his disciple while she struggled to control her new cultivation powers. A crisis at the Kunlun ruins drew Ling Ye away from his quiet life as Zhang Mingyuan asked him for help.

• Ling Ye worried that Su Wanqing’s cultivation would bring him constant interruptions and looked for a way to keep her occupied.
• Su Wanqing practiced the Basic Spirit Nurturing Art and discovered her senses and strength had become unusually powerful.
• Su Wanqing accidentally cracked a glass, burned out a lamp, and resolved to practice controlling her new abilities.
• Zhang Mingyuan called Ling Ye to report that the Kunlun ruins could erupt within twelve to twenty-four hours and that unknown forces, including one with a baleful yin aura, were converging there.
• Ling Ye told Zhang Mingyuan to send him the location and prepared to go to Kunlun.

Ling Ye left Su Wanqing behind with strict instructions to practice safely before traveling through space to the Kunlun Mountain anomaly. He arrived above the site and found Longyuan preparing defenses as hostile forces approached and the ruins’ restrictions began to fail.

• Ling Ye returned to Su Wanqing’s room and ordered her to practice controlling her strength and senses while he was away.
• Su Wanqing promised to follow his instructions and resumed practicing after Ling Ye vanished.
• Ling Ye stepped outside Earth and used Space Jump to reach the Kunlun Mountain region without alerting monitoring equipment.
• Ling Ye surveyed Longyuan’s defensive preparations and several concealed forces moving toward the mountain hollow.
• Ling Ye sensed the ruins’ cracked restrictions straining against an ancient baleful energy and waited for events to unfold.

Longyuan's squad and three rival forces fought over the sealed ruins as its restriction began to break. Ling Ye appeared above the ravine, yawned, and questioned the noise, leaving every faction frozen.

• Mountain Imp watched the energy readings surge as unknown targets breached Longyuan's defenses.
• A black-robed cult, the Blood Wolf Mercenary Group, and a mysterious shadow converged on the ruins entrance.
• The black-robed old man and the bald mercenary leader attacked Longyuan's squad while the shadow held back.
• The battle damaged the ruins' restriction, which began to crack and release a primeval aura.
• Ling Ye appeared in the sky, yawned loudly, and made everyone stop to look at him.

Ling Ye appeared at the mountain valley and used an Eastern Emperor Bell phantom to suppress the Ancient Ruins’ baleful energy and immobilize everyone nearby. He erased the black-robed believers, the mercenaries, and the concealed phantom, then left the Dragon Abyss team to guard the ruins while the bell remained for three to five days.

• Ling Ye appeared above the valley and complained that the Ancient Ruins’ baleful energy would pollute the environment.
• Ling Ye summoned an Eastern Emperor Bell phantom that sealed the ruins and suppressed the power of everyone in the valley.
• Ling Ye erased the black-robed believers with a flick of his finger.
• Ling Ye destroyed the fleeing bald mercenary, his subordinates, and the concealed phantom with a casual wave.
• Ling Ye told the Dragon Abyss team not to touch the bell phantom and said it would remain until the baleful energy dissipated, then disappeared.