Recaps

Biyao reassured Ling Yi about her feelings, and after six months Zheng Hai arrived at Big Bamboo Peak ahead of the Seven Peaks Martial Tournament. Ling Yi reunited with Lu Xueqi and took her away to spend time together, while Zhang Xiaofan and Tian Ling'er faced an attack that drew Qingyun Sect's leaders, including Cangsong, whose attention fixed on Zhang Xiaofan's Fire-Stoking Stick.

• Biyao visited Ling Yi in the back mountains, and Ling Yi told her the story of her destined love before accepting her embrace.
• Over the next six months, Zhang Xiaofan won Tian Ling'er's heart, while Ling Yi exchanged messages with Lu Xueqi and rarely met Biyao.
• Zheng Hai arrived at Big Bamboo Peak and told Ling Yi he had come for a Seven Peaks Martial Tournament check-in mission.
• Lu Xueqi told Ling Yi her master would let them be together if she won the tournament, and Ling Yi flew away with her to spend a few days outside Qingyun Sect.
• Zhang Xiaofan and Tian Ling'er were ambushed by thirteen black-robed figures seeking the Bloodthirsty Bead, prompting Qingyun Sect's leaders to appear.
• Cangsong saw the Fire-Stoking Stick in Zhang Xiaofan's hand and stared at it in alarm.

Zhang Xiaofan was driven into a frenzy by Tian Ling'er's injury, and Tian Buyi and Su Ru intervened to rescue them and confront Cangsong. After Daoxuan took Cangsong away, Ling Yi proposed spreading the Weapon Formula throughout the world to break through the Jade Dynasty World's cultivation limits.

• Cangsong stopped Daoxuan from rescuing Zhang Xiaofan and Tian Ling'er while Tian Buyi and Su Ru tried to reach them.
• After Tian Ling'er was injured, Zhang Xiaofan unleashed the Soul Devourer Staff and killed the attackers surrounding them.
• Tian Buyi used Ten Thousand Swords to clear the attackers, and Su Ru dispelled Zhang Xiaofan's frenzy and healed Tian Ling'er.
• Su Ru slapped Cangsong repeatedly, defended Zhang Xiaofan despite his Bloodthirsty Bead, and threatened to kill Cangsong if he harmed a Big Bamboo Peak disciple.
• Daoxuan told Cangsong that Wan Jianyi was alive and took him away, while he secretly considered using the Zhu Xian Sword to kill Zhang Xiaofan.
• Ling Yi told Su Ru he wanted to pass the Weapon Formula down to the whole world rather than establish a sect.

Ling Yi proposed restricting the Weapon Art to a Qingyun Sect inheritance trial, then defeated the mad Daoxuan with the true Zhu Xian Sword Formation and broke the Zhu Xian Sword. He reunited with Biyao and You Ji on Big Bamboo Peak, where Biyao revealed that she now controlled the Ghost King Sect and announced they had a present for him.

• Ling Yi and Su Ru agreed to establish an inheritance tower on Big Bamboo Peak to control access to the Weapon Art.
• Daoxuan stepped down as Qingyun Sect leader and placed Tian Buyi in charge of the sect.
• Daoxuan attacked Big Bamboo Peak with the Zhu Xian Sword, but Ling Yi confronted him and learned that the sword carried a faint connection to the Primordial World.
• Ling Yi formed the true Four Zhu Xian Swords, shattered Daoxuan's attack, and broke the Zhu Xian Sword, revealing the fifth volume of the Heavenly Book.
• Ling Yi met Biyao and You Ji on Big Bamboo Peak, and Biyao and Lu Xueqi greeted each other like close friends.
• Biyao told Tian Buyi and Su Ru that she had confined Wan Renwang and taken control of the Ghost King Sect, then said she and You Ji had a present for Ling Yi.

Ling Yi studied the five volumes of the Heavenly Book, broke them to release a mysterious will, and recovered fragmented memories linking the Jade Dynasty World to the Primordial World's final calamity. He learned that the Sages created this world as a refuge during the Dharma-ending Age, though the memories left the world's later history unclear.

• Biyao and You Ji presented the five volumes of the Heavenly Book, and Ling Yi began comprehending their Dao resonances while the others stood guard.
• Daoxuan arrived, explained how the Zhu Xian Sword had corrupted his mind, and discussed Zhou Yixian and Ling Yi's theory of the world's three eras.
• You Ji recounted Ling Yi's account of the Wild Era, Transitional Era, and Samsara Era as Daoxuan and the others waited for Ling Yi to finish comprehending.
• Ling Yi identified the five volumes' Dao resonances as strength, creation, karma, samsara, and destruction, then shattered the scrolls and merged the released clusters of light.
• An old man appeared from the merged light, condemned the Heavenly Dao, and vanished after Ling Yi caught the light and absorbed its fragmented memories.
• Ling Yi learned that the Sages created the Jade Dynasty World to survive the Primordial World's Dharma-ending Age, but he found the memories' explanation far-fetched despite its apparent coherence.

Ling Yi oversaw the Qingyun Sect’s flourishing Trial Tower and helped Zhang Xiaofan set out to resolve his past, while visitors brought new opportunities and requests. In the sky, Yin Wanqing revealed that she was recruiting protagonists to provide inspiration for their author, and urged Ling Yi to keep the story moving.

• Ling Yi placed the Heavenly Book’s five Dao resonances and the Weapon Art in the Trial Tower, and Daoxuan decided to enter seclusion and leave the Qingyun Sect to others.
• Half a month later, the Trial Tower had transformed the Qingyun Sect, and Ling Yi advised Zhang Xiaofan to travel to Tianyin Temple with Tian Ling'er after learning Cangsong had gone to Myriad Poison Valley.
• Zhou Yixian and Zhou Xiaohuan visited Ling Yi, who suggested Xiaohuan challenge the Trial Tower to pursue her opportunity.
• Zheng Hai asked Ling Yi for help reaching the top of the Trial Tower for his sign-in mission, and Ling Yi urged him to spend time comprehending the Heavenly Book.
• Yin Wanqing told Ling Yi she wanted protagonists such as Zheng Hai to work for the Ling Realm and provide their author with spinoff inspiration, then advised Ling Yi to pursue the story’s wish-fulfillment style without hesitation.

Ling Yi transmigrated into the protagonist of a modern urban novel, a trend-riding livestream salesman whose copied video about a cured-pork seller sparked a cyberbullying scandal. After discovering his golden finger could control cause and effect, Ling Yi decided to use it to stir up the livestream industry, beginning with the mess he had helped create.

• Ling Yi found that the Transmigration Prediction Radar's forecasts did not match the modern urban world he had entered.
• Ling Yi learned that his new identity was a counterfeit-fighter influencer who earned money selling products through livestreams.
• Ling Yi copied Big Ghost's video attacking an unlabelled cured-pork product and added his own warning about unsafe food.
• Netizens turned against Ling Yi and Big Ghost after learning the seller was an elderly villager who used his profits to support local children.
• Big Ghost refused to apologize, sued the old man, and lost the case, while Ling Yi lost more than eight hundred thousand followers.
• Ling Yi realized he had inherited the power to control cause and effect and decided to use it to disrupt the livestream industry.

Ling Yi used Causality Control to arrange an apology livestream and gain followers, then announced a plan to expose the truth online. Ke Ziheng, a wealthy gamer whose reputation had been ruined by a game company’s fabricated scandal, watched the stream and wondered what Ling Yi would do next.

• Ling Yi activated a Passive Reputation Aura and spent 50 reputation to cause his livestream apology to be forgiven and attract a surge of followers.
• Ke Ziheng brooded over how True II’s designers had banned his account and falsely portrayed him as a bully, unleashing widespread abuse that hurt his parents’ company.
• Ke Ziheng came across Ling Yi’s livestream, where Ling Yi admitted he had chased traffic with a misleading video about Old Man Bai’s cured meat incident.
• Ling Yi warned viewers that streamers and public intellectuals could manipulate online outrage and turn people into tools for harvesting traffic.
• Ling Yi announced that he and his team would try to make the internet more truthful, leaving Ke Ziheng curious about what he planned to do.

Ling Yi used his livestream and his golden finger to expose evidence that the “King.Heng” incident had been orchestrated by employees of “True II,” while threatening viewers who tried to steer the narrative. After the exposure brought support and a surge of attention, he sorted through requests for investigations and found a potentially interesting case involving a woman livestreaming herself selling her waist at an electronics factory.

• Ling Yi silenced the abusive livestream comments, warned a viewer named Zhou Zhen, and demanded that viewers wait for the truth before judging Ke Ziheng.
• Ke Ziheng watched Ling Yi’s broadcast and told his father that the investigation might change his situation.
• Ling Yi used his golden finger to receive emails containing chat screenshots, surveillance videos, influencer payment records, and tax records related to “True II” and the “King.Heng” incident.
• Ling Yi showed the evidence to viewers, revealing that “True II” employees had orchestrated the incident, and “King.Heng” thanked him with a thousand Super Rockets.
• Ling Yi dismissed several viewer requests as already resolved or baseless, then became interested in a request about a woman livestreaming herself selling her waist while working at an electronics factory.

Ling Yi exposed a fraudulent electronics operation on his livestream, then learned from Yin Wanqing that the novel world's popularity was fluctuating dangerously and was urged to finish the world quickly. The next morning, masked attackers rushed Ling Yi and Ke Ziheng outside Ling Yi's apartment, and Ling Yi threw Ke Ziheng inside before launching playing cards at them.

• Ling Yi revealed that a fake factory was selling substandard electronics and exposed Jin Hai of Meilian Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. after receiving a threat to stop streaming.
• Yin Wanqing checked the volatile Fortune Monitoring Chart, questioned Ling Yi about his actions, and urged him to end the modern world soon because the author had invested too much emotion in it.
• Ke Ziheng visited Ling Yi to thank him for helping with the cyberbullying scandal and asked to watch his livestream.
• Six masked men emerged from the elevator and charged at Ling Yi and Ke Ziheng with knives; Ling Yi threw Ke Ziheng into his apartment and hurled playing cards at the attackers.

Ling Yi left his Causality Control cheat with Ke Ziheng, making him the new protagonist of his world, then traveled to a modern parallel world where he began work as a university lecturer. As his first class approached, Ling Yi overheard students discussing Ancient Martial Arts and learned that real practitioners were far stronger than ordinary people.

• Ling Yi examined Ke Ziheng, upgraded the Causality Control cheat with the Laws of Faith and Force, and bound it to Ke Ziheng's soul.
• Ke Ziheng woke to find the Causality Control System bound to him, and Yin Wanqing welcomed him to the Myriad Worlds Protagonist Legion before leaving him to prepare for three years.
• Ke Ziheng read the novel Yin Wanqing left and realized Ling Yi could travel between myriad worlds.
• Ling Yi arrived in a parallel modern world dated September 25, 2010, where he was a university lecturer preparing to teach his first class of the term.
• Zhuo Xiaomei and Xia Wei discussed Peng Yang's contact details, while Yuxin explained that a roommate had sent a misleading message from Peng Yang's account.
• Yuxin warned that Ancient Martial Arts were strictly controlled and revealed that the old man seen lifting a car in a video was her martial uncle.

Ling Yi chose the Passive Cultivation Technique Halo and introduced a breathing method in class that he planned to turn into a genuine cultivation technique for controlling dreams. After Cheng Yuxin and her roommates grew concerned about the method’s safety, Ling Yi returned to his dormitory to test it while Cheng Yuxin, Xia Wei, and Zhuo Xiaomei went back to theirs.

• Ling Yi selected the Passive Cultivation Technique Halo and decided to use it to transform a breathing method into a real cultivation technique.
• During class, Ling Yi described a breathing rhythm for entering controllable dreams, and Cheng Yuxin recognized it as a potentially dangerous cultivation method.
• Peng Yang dismissed Ling Yi’s claims while Gao Wei secretly recorded the lesson, intending to post an edited video online.
• Cheng Yuxin offered to test the breathing method, but Ling Yi insisted on testing it himself and warned the three girls not to practice it yet.
• Cheng Yuxin, Xia Wei, and Zhuo Xiaomei followed Ling Yi before agreeing to return to their dormitory; Ling Yi and Cheng Yuxin then began practicing the method at roughly the same time.

Ling Yi used the Dream Entry technique and discovered the bizarre Dream Realm, where he met NieR and learned about its inhabitants, rules, and Nightmare. NieR asked him to help kill Nightmare, whose growing power threatened more than just the Dream Realm.

• Ling Yi entered a topsy-turvy world through the Dream Entry technique and transformed into Super Saiyan Blue to follow a white-haired girl through shifting gravity.
• The girl introduced herself as NieR and explained that the partly erased people on the shopping street were forgotten ones, fading as their existence disappeared from reality.
• NieR explained that dreams and Dream Power created the Dream Realm, where dream entrants could encounter dangers including Nightmare, who appeared roughly once every hundred Dream Realm years.
• NieR led Ling Yi through a hidden passage to a facility containing three Giant God Warriors made of living metal.
• NieR asked Ling Yi to help kill Nightmare, whose growing strength and ambitions threatened the Dream Realm.

Ling Yi learned that Peng Yang had allied with Nightmare and was involved in a plan to bring people into the Dream Realm, while Cheng Yuxin, Xia Wei, and Zhuo Xiaomei entered alongside him and gained character-based powers. The group learned that death in the Dream Realm could kill them in reality and began planning to investigate Peng Yang, the cultivation method, and its source.

• NieR told Ling Yi that Peng Yang had made a deal with Nightmare involving a Forced Dream Entry Machine, and she urged Ling Yi to stop him in the real world.
• NieR explained the Dream Realm’s factions and the dangers of setting great strength, and Ling Yi realized his cultivation method might explain why he could remain as powerful as Super Saiyan Blue Kakarot.
• Cheng Yuxin, Xia Wei, and Zhuo Xiaomei arrived with Ling Yi after King guided them, then transformed into Android 18, Boa Hancock, and Minako Aino.
• Ling Yi and the women discussed testing the cultivation method, finding Peng Yang, and keeping the method from spreading, while Cheng Yuxin raised the possibility that their class had been recorded.
• NieR revealed that dream entrants who died in the Dream Realm also died in reality, and she explained that native beings survived as long as people remembered and dreamed of them.

Ling Yi and his companions investigated the Dream Realm’s dream people and discovered why NieR had protected them, while Ling Yi’s body grew stronger after entering the realm. After Cheng Yuxin reported that Peng Yang might be monitoring them and building a dream-based virtual game, Ling Yi and Yuxin decided to seek out Nightmare.

• Ling Yi and his companions fled a fast-food restaurant when its diners and people across the city began laughing uncontrollably.
• Ling Yi explained to Yuxin that ordinary dream people were avatars of real-world dreamers and that their Dream Power gave rise to fantasy dream people.
• Ling Yi and Yuxin left the Dream Realm, and Ling Yi found that his physical abilities had increased three to five times.
• Yuxin told Ling Yi that the Dream Entry Cultivation Method had been posted online and removed, but a video on Gao Wei’s phone remained, and she suspected Peng Yang was monitoring her.
• Ling Yi and Yuxin theorized that Peng Yang’s dream-entry machine was a virtual game built with technology gained from the Dream Realm.
• Ling Yi and Yuxin decided to enter the Dream Realm and meet Nightmare.

Ling Yi gave Cheng Yuxin a Dream Entry Clone cultivation technique and returned with her to the Dream Realm, where he met NieR again. NieR revealed that Nightmare had begun mobilizing an army and proposed destroying all ordinary dream people as the only way to destroy him, leaving Ling Yi questioning the plan.

• Cheng Yuxin told Ling Yi that Gao Wei had been dealt with, and Ling Yi created a Dream Entry Clone technique for her.
• Cheng Yuxin tested the technique in the Dream Realm, producing clones that transformed into different people and jumped from the building.
• Ling Yi explained that ordinary dream people were trapped in fixed routines, then set out to visit NieR with part of his own power unsealed.
• NieR blamed the dream entry people for Nightmare's early war preparations, and Ling Yi asked her to explain what had happened.
• NieR said Nightmare had an army of fantasy dream people and claimed that destroying all ordinary dream people was the only way to destroy him.
• Ling Yi questioned the plan because ordinary dream people were continually born from people's dreams.

Ling Yi rejected NieR’s plan to save the Dream Realm by destroying its dream people, then erased Nightmare and Peng Yang and changed the Dream Realm’s rules. After reflecting on the author’s faltering plots, he chose to set his own pace and transmigrated into A Step into the Past as an assassin facing Shan Rou.

• Ling Yi condemned NieR’s plan, which would trap people in endless nightmares, and warned her not to carry it out.
• Cheng Yuxin reported seeing Peng Yang with a child she suspected was Nightmare, and Peng Yang led an army of villains to surround the city.
• Ling Yi snapped his fingers, erased Nightmare and Peng Yang, and changed the Dream Realm’s rules to separate fantasy and ordinary dream people.
• Yin Wanqing and Cheng Yuxin discussed whether to send the author a hint, while Ling Yi spent three months in the Ling Realm receiving memories from his clones and decided to find his own rhythm.
• Ling Yi transmigrated into A Step into the Past as an assassin marked for death, and found himself facing Shan Rou.

Ling Yi defeated Shan Rou, then encountered Xiang Shaolong, who had fallen from the sky into the State of Zhao. Ling Yi kept Xiang Shaolong’s Space-Time Jade Pendant and led him toward Handan, leaving the chapter with Ling Yi spotting a large animal while searching for food.

• Ling Yi used his Passive Counterattack Aura and swordsmanship to defeat Shan Rou, who withdrew from the valley and vowed to return.
• Xiang Shaolong fell from the sky, and Ling Yi took his Space-Time Jade Pendant and handgun while he was unconscious.
• Xiang Shaolong awoke and shot at Ling Yi, but Ling Yi blocked the bullet with his sword; Xiang Shaolong then followed him to try to recover the pendant.
• Ling Yi warned Xiang Shaolong that he was an assassin and that Handan lay ahead, while Xiang Shaolong disguised himself in coarse hemp clothes at an elderly couple’s home.
• Ling Yi left to search for game and spotted a large animal in the wilderness.

Xiang Shaolong recovered his Space-Time Jade Pendant and joined Ling Yi’s plan to rescue Zhu Ji and her son in Handan, while Shan Rou also attached herself to Ling Yi. The three traveled to Youpeng Town and entered a dangerous warriors’ lodge, where they noticed an old man with a black wooden sword.

• Xiang Shaolong traded his dagger for the Space-Time Jade Pendant and learned that Ling Yi planned to rescue Zhu Ji and Zhao Zheng to earn King Xiang of Qin’s favor.
• Xiang Shaolong persuaded Ling Yi to let him join the plan, and Shan Rou arrived, deflected an attack, and demanded to join as well.
• Ling Yi told Shan Rou and Xiang Shaolong they could follow him, and the three set out for Handan the next morning.
• Shan Rou explained that Youpeng Town’s warriors’ lodge offered food and lodging but forced fighters into deadly contests for influential patrons.
• The three entered the lodge carrying bronze swords and spotted a disheveled old man drinking wine beside a pitch-black wooden sword.

Ling Yi and Shan Rou met Yuan Zong, then joined him in confronting Yan Ping, who had plotted to seize the Mohist Grand Master's Token. Ling Yi cut through Yan Ping’s ambush, and Shan Rou and Yuan Zong forced Yan Ping back from his escape attempt.

• Ling Yi told Yuan Zong that Yan Ping had placed a bounty on his head, and six assassins attacked Ling Yi before he killed them with one sword stroke.
• Ling Yi revealed that he and Shan Rou had been trained by Cao Qiudao, then asked Yuan Zong to lead them to Yan Ping so they could kill him and later rescue Zhu Ji and her son.
• Ling Yi entered Yan Ping’s manor alone and deflected arrows and hidden weapons, killing many of the nearly hundred ambushers as Xiang Shaolong described the fictional Nine Swords of Dugu to Shan Rou and Yuan Zong.
• Shan Rou noticed Yan Ping retreating and charged with Yuan Zong to block his escape while Xiang Shaolong aimed his pistol at him.
• Yan Ping tried to flee over a courtyard wall, but Shan Rou and Yuan Zong attacked together and forced him back into the manor.

Ling Yi, Shan Rou, and Xiang Shaolong reached Camel Hump Mountain and recovered the Heirloom Seal of He from the mounted bandits. After rescuing two survivors from Wu Family Fort, they learned Xiang Shaolong had been bitten by the proud woman, and the group prepared to decide what to do next.

• Shan Rou killed Yan Ping, and the surviving men surrendered to Yuan Zong.
• Ling Yi told Xiang Shaolong that his abilities came from innate talent, then parted from Yuan Zong and rode toward Handan with Shan Rou and Xiang Shaolong.
• The group found the slaughtered Wu Family Fort convoy in a valley and learned the mounted bandits had taken the Heirloom Seal of He.
• Ling Yi and his companions stormed the bandits' stronghold, subdued them, and found the seal hidden beneath the seat of honor.
• Shan Rou and Xiang Shaolong rescued the only two survivors from Wu Family Fort, but the woman bit Xiang Shaolong and then kicked him after Shan Rou struck him.

Ling Yi and his companions recovered the Heirloom Seal of He and discovered Lian Jin had betrayed Wu Family Fort. After Ling Yi severed Lian Jin’s sword arm and Wu Tingfang pleaded for his life, the group escorted her and Tao Fang toward Wu Family Fort, where its master came out to greet them.

• Ling Yi returned the Heirloom Seal of He to Tao Fang, and Tao Fang realized Wu Tingfang had told Lian Jin about its secret transport.
• Lian Jin arrived, admitted his loyalty to Zhao Mu, killed the bandit chief, and demanded the seal.
• Ling Yi cut off Lian Jin’s right arm, and Wu Tingfang pleaded with Ling Yi to spare him.
• Wu Tingfang fainted after Lian Jin left, and Tao Fang asked Ling Yi to escort them to Wu Family Fort.
• Ling Yi agreed to stay at Wu Family Fort, and Tao Fang described its warhorses and the upcoming cuju tournament.
• Wu Yingyuan met the group on the road as they approached Wu Family Fort.

Ling Yi and his companions arrived at Wu Family Fort, where Wu Yingyuan thanked him for saving the fort and discussed the Heirloom Seal of He and Zhu Ji’s rescue. Wu Tingfang later asked Ling Yi for advice, and he sent her to Xiang Shaolong to solve her father’s problem, promising Xiang Shaolong an advanced breathing method in return.

• Wu Yingyuan welcomed Ling Yi and his companions, while Wu Tingfang reunited with her family and Wu Tingwei left with her.
• Ling Yi told Shan Rou to scout Zhao Mu’s residence and explained that he planned to hand Zhu Ji and her son to Wu Yingyuan after meeting someone important.
• Wu Yingyuan discussed Ling Yi, the hostage prince, and Zhao Mu with Tao Fang and Wu Tingfang, then planned to visit the king with Tao Fang.
• Wu Tingfang visited Ling Yi and asked for advice about the Heirloom Seal of He, and Ling Yi told her to take Xiang Shaolong to her father.
• Xiang Shaolong agreed to help Wu Tingfang after Ling Yi promised to teach him an advanced breathing method, and Wu Tingfang took him to see Wu Yingyuan.

Ling Yi learned that Zhao Pan, a time traveler, had become a powerful adviser to the King of Zhao and intended to pursue power in Zhao rather than become the First Emperor of Qin. Ling Yi decided to find the real Zhao Zheng and oppose Zhao Pan, then faced Cao Qiudao outside Wu Family Fort.

• Ling Yi learned that Zhao Pan sold modern goods, had earned the title Marquis of Peace, and had weakened Zhao Mu's position at court.
• Ling Yi sent Shan Rou to Niu Family Village to find Niu Zheng, whose real identity was Zhao Zheng, while explaining that Zhao Pan's Zhao Zheng was an impostor.
• Ling Yi concluded that Zhao Pan was Xiang Shaolong's enemy because he was willing to change history, and Xiang Shaolong agreed to investigate how Zhao Pan brought modern goods to the past.
• Ling Yi gave Shan Rou and Xiang Shaolong a breathing cultivation technique, and they went off to practice.
• Ling Yi deflected two hidden weapons and confronted Cao Qiudao, who challenged him to a fight.

Ling Yi defeated Cao Qiudao and recruited him to help with an impending upheaval, then won Yuan Zong’s support for his plan to unite the states. At Wu Family Fort, Ling Yi revealed that the real Zhao Zheng had died years ago, leaving Wu Yingyuan and Tao Fang fearing Lü Buwei’s retaliation.

• Ling Yi bested Cao Qiudao in a series of exchanges and persuaded him to stay at Wu Family Fort and cooperate in return for a cultivation technique.
• Yuan Zong agreed to help Ling Yi unite the states, while warning that the Mohist School would kill him if his actions violated the Heavenly Dao.
• Wu Yingyuan and Tao Fang reviewed what they had learned about Ling Yi, Xiang Shaolong, and their connections before welcoming Ling Yi to Wu Family Fort.
• Ling Yi told Wu Yingyuan that he would rescue Zhu Ji but that Zhao Zheng did not need rescuing because the child at Zhao Mu’s residence was a fake.
• Ling Yi revealed that the real Zhao Zheng, raised as Niu Zheng in Niu Family Village, had died in a plague, alarming Wu Yingyuan and Tao Fang about Lü Buwei’s likely response.

Ling Yi persuaded Wu Yingyuan to consider helping him replace Zhao Zheng, then gathered allies and discovered that Zhao Pan possessed advanced surveillance technology and a modern army. He ordered preparations to leave Handan and activated a pill-refining cheat, leaving Yuan Zong stunned by a huge pit in the manor.

• Ling Yi told Wu Yingyuan and Tao Fang that Zhao Zheng had to live and declared that he would become Zhao Zheng, while Wu Tingfang learned her family’s Qin origins and Wu Yingyuan’s ties to Lü Buwei.
• Yuan Zong, Cao Qiudao, and Shan Rou arrived at Ling Yi’s manor, and Ling Yi sent Cao Qiudao to assassinate Zhao Pan, the Marquis of Taiping.
• Shan Rou brought back Niu Zheng’s belongings, and Yuan Zong tested Ling Yi with a sudden sword strike that stopped just above his head when a miniature drone fell into Ling Yi’s goblet.
• Ling Yi and Xiang Shaolong identified the device as a surveillance drone linked to Zhao Pan, and Xiang Shaolong revealed that Zhao Pan commanded a modern force armed with submachine guns, armor, armored vehicles, and autocannons.
• Ling Yi ordered Yuan Zong to watch Zhao Pan and told Shan Rou and Xiang Shaolong to prepare Wu Yingyuan to leave Handan, then activated Passive Pill Aura to counter Zhao Pan’s technology cheat.
• Yuan Zong returned to find an enormous pit inside the manor and was dumbfounded.