Chapter Summaries

Zhu Qingling, her parents, and Ding Ling entered the Immortal Palace Game World so Ding Ling could investigate its origins. As Zhu Qingling began cultivating and attracted attention from other Players, Ding Ling remained puzzled by the game’s connection to Uncle Nine’s world and the Blue Star Continent World.

• Zhu Qingling and Jiang Enxi questioned how the game could let souls transmigrate, and Ding Ling said he needed to enter it and investigate.
• Ding Ling attached himself to Zhu Qingling’s Sea of Consciousness, and he entered the game with Zhu Qingling and her parents.
• The group arrived in the Immortal Palace Territory, where Players celebrated the game’s lifelike world and speculated about marrying its characters.
• Ding Ling explained that the game’s Esper Elements were spiritual energy, and Zhu Qingling cultivated the Martial Dao True Understanding to strengthen her frail game body.
• Ding Ling wondered how the game connected to Uncle Nine’s world and the Blue Star Continent World as Players recognized and crowded around Zhu Qingling.

Zhu Qingling drew a crowd of devoted fans, then heard Meng Weici warn that the Game World could kill players and that adults would soon be forced to enter it. After seeing Zhu Qingling’s strength, Meng Weici persuaded her to form a team, while other players struggled to survive and find wives in the ancient world.

• Zhu Qingling calmed her fans and refused entertainment-industry invitations so she could focus on cultivation.
• Meng Weici warned Zhu Qingling that repeated deaths in the Game World could leave players vegetative or dead, and that adults would soon be forced into the game.
• Meng Weici revealed that players would receive a quest to capture all natives and argued they needed to unite; Zhu Qingling demonstrated her strength and agreed to form a team.
• Players complained online that they could not easily marry in the ancient world, where success required ability, a convincing identity, and access to suitable women.

Zhu Qingling cultivated in the Immortal Palace while Ding Ling investigated its mysteries, and she gained public fame after proving her academic brilliance with his help. When adults who had not joined Transcend the Myriad Worlds suddenly died under a rule’s power, Zhu Qingling returned to a changed Game World and found the mission to raise all Natives in captivity.

• Ding Ling identified Zhao Pan and the Warring States setting as Chronicles of Seeking Qin, while Zhu Qingling remained in the Immortal Palace to cultivate.
• Zhu Qingling took leave from school after passing increasingly difficult tests with Ding Ling’s help, and the principal publicized her achievements.
• Authorities urged adults to enter Transcend the Myriad Worlds, and those who refused suddenly disappeared and died under the power of a rule.
• Ding Ling explained that the deaths came from a rule and continued investigating the Immortal Palace, where he could study Uncle Nine’s original body but not other originals.
• Zhu Qingling returned to the Game World, where the Immortal Palace had materialized and her Character Panel displayed the mission to raise all Natives in captivity.

Ding Ling explained the early Players’ advantages and helped Zhu Qingling understand the danger facing Players in the Chronicles of Seeking Qin world. Zhu Qingling joined Meng Weici’s Dream Team, whose recruitment drive rapidly consolidated most of the Players under its command.

• Ding Ling estimated that thirty million Players had entered the Chronicles of Seeking Qin world and explained that the Natives were gaining supernatural abilities and killing Players.
• After reaching the Martial Nascent Soul realm, Zhu Qingling decided to cooperate with Meng Weici and complete the mission rather than risk her resurrected parents’ lives.
• Meng Weici told Zhu Qingling that Lian Jin had awakened the Sword Control Technique, attacked Players, and encouraged the Natives to drive them from the Immortal Palace.
• Zhu Qingling joined Meng Weici’s Dream Team, and her announcement attracted more than a million Players.
• The Dream Team took control of the Hall of Universal Brightness and absorbed or drove away rival teams, growing to twenty million Players within days.

Zhu Qingling’s popularity and devotion to Ding Ling grew as she led the Dream Team toward control of the Immortal Palace Territory. When Xiang Shaolong confronted her and threatened the Players, she killed him with a single palm strike, leaving her shaken by her first real killing.

• Zhu Qingling posted “Lucky to have met you in this life,” prompting fans to speculate that she was dating someone, while she privately blushed when Ding Ling admitted he had seen the post.
• Zhu Qingling spent the next year trying to win over Ding Ling, reached the peak of the Martial Nascent Soul realm, and earned full marks on her school exams.
• Zhu Qingling’s alternate account was exposed after she defended Ding Ling online, stirring rumors that she loved a man who already had a girlfriend.
• The Dream Team, led by Meng Weici and strengthened by Zhu Qingling’s influence, occupied nearly all of the Immortal Palace Territory and captured most of the Natives.
• Xiang Shaolong appeared before Zhu Qingling and demanded that she kill herself and make the Players stop attacking the Natives.
• Zhu Qingling struck Xiang Shaolong with her Heaven Flipping Palm, killing him, then steadied herself as a group of people appeared before her.

Zhu Qingling killed Xiang Shaolong, but he revived and began ambushing players across the Immortal Palace. After training to pursue him, she confronted Xiang Shaolong and the ability users in Xianyang, where their fight left him and Fanger injured and Lian Jin under attack.

• Meng Weici and the player leaders praised Zhu Qingling for killing Xiang Shaolong, but Xiang Shaolong reappeared and beheaded them as they left her room.
• Zhu Qingling killed Xiang Shaolong again, and Ding Ling revealed that Xiang Shaolong could revive himself; Zhu Qingling agreed to try to capture him with Ding Ling's help.
• After Xiang Shaolong massacred players across the Immortal Palace, Zhu Qingling went to Xianyang to hunt him, guided by Ding Ling to the ability users' locations.
• At the Prime Minister's Residence, Zhu Qingling fought Lian Jin, and Xiang Shaolong appeared while Fanger rushed to help him.
• Zhu Qingling struck Fanger aside, Xiang Shaolong caught her and crashed into a wall, and Zhu Qingling's next palm knocked away Lian Jin's sword and sent force surging toward him.

Zhu Qingling captured Xiang Shaolong and helped the Players defeat the Native resistance, then investigated his time-travel ability with Ding Ling. After Xiang Shaolong handed over his communicator, Zhu Qingling began an experiment to travel to the future, leaving the outcome unknown.

• Lian Jin fled after Zhu Qingling overwhelmed the Native soldiers, while Zhu Qingling demanded that Xiang Shaolong come with her and promised to spare Wu Tingfang and Xianyang’s people.
• Xiang Shaolong agreed to be captured, and Zhu Qingling handed Xianyang’s Natives to Meng Weici as Li Mu, Wang Jian, and the remaining forces surrendered.
• Ding Ling and Zhu Qingling studied Xiang Shaolong’s ability, and Xiang Shaolong explained that he could return no more than three days into the past but could not change Zhu Qingling’s victory over him.
• Zhu Qingling persuaded Xiang Shaolong to give her his communicator so she could test whether it could take her to the future, and she imprisoned and hypnotized him before the experiment.
• With lightning-type Players helping charge the communicator, Zhu Qingling opened a traversal passage and entered it despite Meng Weici and the others urging her not to risk the journey.

Zhu Qingling Traversed into a radically changed future, where authorities suspected her of being an Extraterrestrial Devil because she had no records. After she revealed that she had come from the Warring States period, officials recognized her as the long-lost Player Zhu Qingling and kept her at the Arrest Division while they investigated.

• Ding Ling used the Space-Time Energy Zhu Qingling had seized to understand how time travel worked and gained an ability resembling Xiang Shaolong's.
• Zhu Qingling arrived in a futuristic Xianyang whose timeline had been transformed by the Immortal Palace's descent, and city technology locked onto her.
• Captain Mu Jianlan questioned Zhu Qingling, found no records for her or her parents, and tried to arrest her after suspecting she was connected to the Extraterrestrial Devil.
• Zhu Qingling agreed to accompany Mu Jianlan to the Arrest Division, where an official recognized her resemblance to the preserved portrait of the ancient Player.
• Zhu Qingling explained that she had Traversed from the Warring States period, and the officials agreed to keep her at the Arrest Division while Mu Jianlan helped her understand the future.

Mu Jianlan told Zhu Qingling how humanity’s history unfolded after the Ancient Era, from Xiang Shaolong’s death through the Han Dynasty and Great Tang, while Mu Zhengpin took the question of how to handle Zhu Qingling to the Council. The chapter ended as Mu Jianlan began explaining how the demon consort Wu Cai Ren helped bring down Great Tang.

• Mu Zhengpin left Zhu Qingling and went to the Council to discuss the dilemma of how to handle her time-traveling presence.
• Mu Jianlan explained that the Arrest Division recognized Zhu Qingling from preserved Ancient Era records and told her that Xianyang’s defensive systems had locked onto her when she arrived.
• Mu Jianlan recounted how the Immortal Palace’s Esper Elements ran out, leaving Xiang Shaolong unable to reach Tier 9 before he died at age 999.
• Mu Jianlan described the chaos after Xiang Shaolong’s death, Liu Bang’s unification of Shenzhou, and the rise of the Han Dynasty.
• Mu Jianlan explained that Li Shimin founded Great Tang, where heroes fought demons for millennia, before Wu Cai Ren’s rule and the effort to replace the dynasty began.

Mu Jianlan explained humanity’s history of war, technological decline, and its ongoing struggle against demons and monsters infected by Curse Source. As Ding Ling learned how the threats infiltrated fortified cities and how humanity identified them, he considered the future world’s dangers and the secrets connecting Curse Source to the Immortal Palace.

• Mu Jianlan recounted how humanity’s technological factions fought, then reunited against a massive invasion of demons and monsters.
• Mu Jianlan explained that mutated weapons resonated with Curse Source, and that Iron Man soldiers risked their lives fighting powerful demons and monsters.
• At Ding Ling’s prompting, Zhu Qingling asked how humans detected infected people, and Mu Jianlan described how Curse Source Weapons scanned for them.
• Ding Ling reasoned that the Chronicles of Seeking Qin world followed some Immortal Palace rules but had its own differences, and decided against recruiting Xiang Shaolong because of his womanizing nature.
• Ding Ling learned that demons and monsters had grown more powerful over time, infiltrating human bodies and reducing humanity’s fortified cities to only a few hundred.
• Mu Jianlan described the strict orders to arrest or kill uncooperative strangers, recalling how disguised demons had infiltrated cities and caused devastating losses.

Ding Ling guided Zhu Qingling through half a month of cultivation until she mastered version 4.0 of the Martial Dao True Understanding, then sent her beyond Xianyang City's defenses to investigate and fight the demons. After she absorbed the Curse Source from demon remains without harm, a black-clad girl with a scythe appeared, and Ding Ling recognized how terrifying this world's Curse Source was.

• Ding Ling decided to teach Zhu Qingling version 4.0 of the Martial Dao True Understanding so she could venture outside the city and investigate the Immortal Palace.
• Zhu Qingling trained under Ding Ling's guidance for half a month and successfully mastered the new version, which could absorb strange auras and Curse Source Qi.
• Zhu Qingling told Mu Jianlan she would enter demon territory, and Mu Jianlan and Mu Zhengpin accompanied her to Xianyang City's walls despite the Council members' doubts.
• Zhu Qingling crossed the defensive barrier and absorbed the Curse Source from a demon's remains, leaving them pale and brittle and astonishing the people watching from inside the city.
• Zhu Qingling walked into the wilderness and encountered a black-clad girl carrying a scythe; Ding Ling recognized the girl's corrupted soul and realized this world's Curse Source was especially terrifying.

Zhu Qingling tricked Wei Peihan into letting her absorb and strip away her Curse Source, then brought the powerless demon to Xianyang’s gate. While the city’s leaders debated whether to let Wei Peihan in, Mu Jianlan came outside to help guard her, and Zhu Qingling set out to lure more demons to the city.

• Wei Peihan introduced herself to Zhu Qingling and agreed to go with her to Xianyang, believing she would kill Zhu Qingling once they entered the city.
• Ding Ling used Zhu Qingling’s hand to absorb Wei Peihan’s Curse Source Qi, helping Zhu Qingling break through to the Dharma Form Realm and leaving Wei Peihan powerless.
• Ding Ling stripped Wei Peihan of her Curse Source, including the Tier 6 Death and Empty Step Sequences, while Zhu Qingling kept her plan to capture more demons secret.
• Zhu Qingling brought Wei Peihan to Xianyang’s gate, but Mu Zhengpin and the Council argued over whether the demon should be allowed inside.
• Mu Jianlan slipped through the gate to meet Zhu Qingling, took custody of Wei Peihan, and agreed to guard her while Zhu Qingling went to attract more demons.

Zhu Qingling defeated a high-grade female demon with the Taibai Divine Sword and absorbed her Curse Sources, then brought her back to Xianyang for treatment. She left the city again to hunt demons, while the Council waited for her to return before sending Iron Man warriors into the battlefield.

• The Council members decided to prioritize Zhu Qingling's safety, and Mu Zhengpin warned them not to interfere with her plans.
• A high-grade female demon offered Zhu Qingling a sword and tried to capture her, but Ding Ling used the Taibai Divine Sword to pin and defeat the demon.
• Ding Ling drained the female demon's Curse Source Qi, strengthening Zhu Qingling and granting her the Empty Step, Taibai Divine Sword, and Weakness Curse Sources.
• Zhu Qingling carried the weakened demon to Xianyang, where the Council arranged for her to receive medical care.
• Zhu Qingling instructed Mu Jianlan and left to hunt more demons, while the Iron Man warriors waited for her return before collecting bodies outside the city.

Zhu Qingling hunted superior demons outside Xianyang, absorbed their Curse Sources with Ding Ling’s guidance, and advanced to the Half-Immortal realm before mastering the Nine Palaces Plate Cable in seclusion. Afterward, she agreed to let the Council’s scientists study the captured demons.

• Zhu Qingling defeated three Succubus Death Gods, drained their Curse Sources, and reached the peak of the Martial Dharma Image.
• Zhu Qingling defeated the Seven Zheng Brothers and absorbed their Curse Sources, advancing to the Half-Immortal realm.
• Zhu Qingling returned to Xianyang and cultivated the Nine Palaces Plate Cable in seclusion for seventeen days with Ding Ling’s help.
• Zhu Qingling emerged having initially mastered the Nine Palaces Plate Cable, then agreed to let the scientists examine the captured demons.

Zhu Qingling advanced deeper into demon territory, growing stronger with Ding Ling’s guidance and killing a town’s demons. After the town’s leader tried to recruit her, she attacked, and he realized she possessed more than ten Curse Sources.

• Zhu Qingling left Xianyang and used Ding Ling’s instruction to master the Nine Palaces Plate Cable, rapidly killing high-grade demons and strengthening herself.
• Mu Jianlan and the Council watched Zhu Qingling’s progress and discussed seeking her cooperation, while Mu Jianlan warned them not to scheme behind her back.
• Zhu Qingling entered a demon town filled with tens of thousands of demons and confronted its roguish leader and his subordinates.
• The leader offered Zhu Qingling rewards to stop fighting against the Heavenly Devils, but she declared that she had come to kill them all.
• Zhu Qingling swiftly cut down the leader’s subordinates, and the shocked leader recognized that she carried more than ten Curse Sources.

Zhu Qingling defeated Shangguan Fengluo, captured him for Xianyang, and then fought her way toward Mang City to confront Wei Ran. As her battle with Wei Ran began, he revealed that demons had grown curious about her unusual nature and wanted to capture her.

• Zhu Qingling defeated Shangguan Fengluo, absorbed the Curse Sources from him and his wounded companions, and spared him to be imprisoned in Xianyang.
• Zhu Qingling returned to Xianyang, where Mu Jianlan and Mu Zhengpin learned Shangguan Fengluo was the East King's son and ordered him locked up.
• Mu Jianlan told Zhu Qingling that Wei Ran, the Wei Peihan sisters' uncle and a commander of the East King, was in Mang City, so Zhu Qingling set out to kill demons before the East King noticed her actions.
• Zhu Qingling fought through the demons to reach Mang City, while Mu Jianlan's group followed her through a growing swarm of robots.
• Wei Ran confronted Zhu Qingling atop Mang City's tower, sent tens of thousands of demons against her, and said generals wanted to capture her because she did not become bloodthirsty and murderous after encountering demons.

Zhu Qingling slaughtered demons while humanity watched her use numerous Curse Sources, and Wei Ran offered to become her servant after realizing he could not defeat her. Following Ding Ling's advice, Zhu Qingling accepted him and asked where the demons' Origin Land was.

• Zhu Qingling continued fighting after Wei Ran revealed her Curse Sources, killing more than ten demons at once with the Nine Swords of Dugu.
• Council members debated asking Zhu Qingling to share her Curse Source method, but Mu Zhengpin warned that pressuring her could drive her away.
• Wei Ran described how Zhu Qingling used nineteen Curse Sources together, admitted he feared her, and begged her to accept him as a lackey.
• Ding Ling advised Zhu Qingling to take Wei Ran as an ally and use him to help conquer demon towns.
• Zhu Qingling accepted Wei Ran and asked him to tell her where the demons' Origin Land was.

Zhu Qingling learned that the demons’ Origin Land had moved repeatedly and gathered Curse Sources while conquering demon territory. After defeating hundreds of generals with Wei Ran and Zhang Nu as guides, she reached East Gazing City near Shangguan Bo’s domain, where they warned her not to rush into a confrontation with the East King.

• Wei Ran told Zhu Qingling that the Origin Land moved between locations, had been in Liaodu a thousand years earlier, and accelerated demons’ growth through its Curse Source Qi.
• Zhu Qingling absorbed the Curse Sources and Curse Source Qi of tens of thousands of demons, reaching the peak of the Half-Immortal realm and gaining sixteen Curse Sources.
• Wei Ran guided Zhu Qingling to Auspicious Sun City, where Zhang Nu pretended to resist before kneeling and asking to join her.
• Zhu Qingling accepted Zhang Nu, then followed his and Wei Ran’s suggestions to target Ouyang Yu and weaker regions.
• Over five days, Zhu Qingling killed at least three hundred demon generals as Zhang Nu and Wei Ran guided her toward the demon heartland.
• The group reached East Gazing City, six hundred li from Shangguan Bo’s territory, and Wei Ran and Zhang Nu advised Zhu Qingling to approach the East King cautiously.

Ding Ling took control of Zhu Qingling and fought Shangguan Bo, using the Demon King as a sparring opponent to improve her swordsmanship. After a fierce battle across East Gazing City, Ding Ling decided Shangguan Bo had served his purpose and prepared to kill him, while the outcome remained unresolved.

• Shangguan Bo confronted Zhu Qingling on East Gazing City’s wall and mocked her, prompting Zhang Nu and Wei Ran to insult him and Tian Meng.
• Ding Ling took control of Zhu Qingling and killed dozens of Shangguan Bo’s warriors, including Tian Meng, before engaging Shangguan Bo.
• Ding Ling guided Zhu Qingling through a long sword fight, letting her battle Shangguan Bo while he assessed the Demon King’s strength and Curse Sources.
• After Zhu Qingling could hold her own but still could not defeat Shangguan Bo, Ding Ling decided to end the fight.
• Shangguan Bo demanded that Zhu Qingling reveal how she absorbed demonic energy, and she refused as the demons cheered him and Zhang Nu and Wei Ran grew anxious.

Zhu Qingling turned the battle against Shangguan Bo around, then resisted his Eastern Purgatory Tower with Ding Ling’s help and negotiated to spare his life in exchange for his subordinates. Shangguan Bo began summoning the Eight-Direction Fierce Generals, while Zhu Qingling sought information about the Origin Land.

• Mu Jianlan and the Council members watched Zhu Qingling’s livestream battle and feared she was about to lose until she suddenly drove Shangguan Bo back and severed his left arm.
• Shangguan Bo summoned the Eastern Purgatory Tower and used its beams to try to capture Zhu Qingling, but Ding Ling helped her absorb and refine the tower’s radiance.
• Shangguan Bo discovered that more than half the tower’s radiance had vanished and was shocked that Zhu Qingling could refine it.
• Zhu Qingling rejected Shangguan Bo’s offer to negotiate unless he agreed to hand over his subordinates and explain where the Origin Land was; he said four Demon Kings had to work together to reveal it.
• Ding Ling advised Zhu Qingling that Shangguan Bo could be trusted for the moment, so she agreed to spare him if he sent his subordinates to her.
• Shangguan Bo began using the Eastern Purgatory Tower to summon the Eight-Direction Fierce Generals, including Wei Ran and Zhang Nu.