Arc 11The Quantum Invasion

Ling Yi’s journey through the White Snake world ended as he moved into a modern world threatened by quantum invaders. After joining Zhao Yanran to investigate R35 and the Quantum Virtual World, he learned that an alien invasion was approaching Blue Star.

  • Ling Yi became Ying Zheng, united the world under Great Qin, and left the true First Emperor on the throne before transmigrating into a black snake.
  • Ling Yi gained animal and human forms, met Guanyin, and protected White Snake as she endured centuries of separation from Xu Yan and eventually became Bai Suzhen.
  • After Ming Shi killed Xu Xuan, Ling Yi helped Bai Suzhen fight him and traveled with her and Xiaoyu as history changed and Mount Juehuang became Mount Qingcheng.
  • Ling Yi left the White Snake world and transmigrated into the body of a newly hired doctor, where his aura gave him abilities and memories from injured people at a crime scene.
  • Ling Yi helped the escaped body-stealing criminal flee, then learned from Zhao Hai that R35 connected humanity to the Quantum Realm and joined the Special Incident Defense Bureau investigation.
  • Ling Yi and Zhao Yanran raided a headset factory, uncovered an underground facility, and pursued the investigation to a guarded farm in Kansas.
  • Ling Yi and Zhao Yanran escaped a military base in a stolen fighter jet and reached Babuli Farm, where Lan Rui attacked the entrance.
  • Lan Rui identified herself as a visitor from the Forest Domain God Realm, explained that R35 was spreading through the Milky Way, and warned that the Centaurus Gray Matter Aliens would invade Blue Star in five years.
Chapters 251–275 Vol. 3 Read

Ch. 251Everyone Ate Dirt, and Zhao Pan Turned Cao Qiudao to His Side

Ling Yi refined earth-attribute pills that let people gain earth abilities, and he urged his allies to eat them as Zhao Pan grew stronger after Cao Qiudao joined him. The chapter ended with Zou Yan and Qin Qing arriving outside Handan at night, where Zou Yan predicted they would meet a benefactor.

  • Ling Yi and Yuan Zong ate earth-attribute pills, gained earth powers, and accidentally covered Shan Rou in dirt when Yuan Zong raised a wall at the courtyard entrance.
  • Shan Rou reported that Cao Qiudao had slaughtered his fellow disciples and joined Zhao Pan, and Ling Yi predicted Zhao Pan would avoid acting rashly for now.
  • Ling Yi told Shan Rou to keep eating pills, then learned from Xiang Shaolong that Zhao Pan had already rescued Zhu Ji.
  • Ling Yi invited Wu Yingyuan, Tao Fang, and Wu Tingfang to take pills and help him end the age of chaos, and Wu Yingyuan pledged Wu Family Fort's allegiance to Ling Yi.
  • Zou Yan and Qin Qing traveled toward Handan after Zou Yan observed an unusual celestial configuration, then arrived after dark and prepared to spend the night outside the city.

Ch. 252Xiang Shaolong's Joy and Disappointment, the Extraordinary Zou Yan

Ling Yi welcomed Zou Yan and Qin Qing to Wu Family Fort, where Zou Yan deduced that Ling Yi came from beyond their world and agreed to travel beyond it with him. After half a month preparing Attribute Pills and plans, Ling Yi announced that they would begin their operation that night under his new identity: Ying Zheng.

  • Ling Yi welcomed Zou Yan and Qin Qing, while Xiang Shaolong mistook Qin Qing for his modern girlfriend before realizing she did not know him.
  • After learning Xiang Shaolong came from the future, Zou Yan inferred that Ling Yi was also from outside their world and agreed to join him in seeing what lay beyond it.
  • Ling Yi spoke with Qin Qing about doubting whether his experiences across many worlds were real, then carried her to a guest room after she fell asleep.
  • Wu Yingyuan brought materials for Ling Yi to refine into Attribute Pills, and Zou Yan advised him using his five elements theory.
  • After half a month, Wu Yingyuan reported that Lü Buwei was ready to receive them, and Ling Yi ordered everyone to begin that night, announcing he would be known as Ying Zheng.

Ch. 253Depleting the Protagonist's Reserves, Zou Yan's One-Man Show

Zou Yan attacked Zhao Pan’s estate with stone puppets, forcing Zhao Pan’s forces to expend weapons and ammunition until the estate was left silent. Meanwhile, Ling Yi traveled with Zhu Ji toward the Zhao border, where Lü Buwei awaited them, and Zhu Ji worried that Zhao Pan would threaten Zhao Zheng.

  • Zhao Pan woke to an alarm and found nine stone giants attacking his estate, but he did not realize Ling Yi’s group had sent them to drain his resources.
  • Zou Yan controlled the puppets and repeatedly transformed them, countering Zhao Pan’s guns, incendiary bombs, and water tanker with stronger five-elements formations.
  • After hours of fighting, Zhao Pan’s estate fell silent near dawn, with only corpses left inside.
  • Ling Yi traveled with Zhu Ji and Wu Yingyuan toward the Zhao border, while Zhu Ji shared her hardships and tried to reconnect with the son she believed was Zhao Zheng.
  • Zhu Ji worried that Zhao Pan would become a threat to Zhao Zheng, and Wu Yingyuan recalled Xiang Shaolong calling Zhao Pan a humanoid vending machine.

Ch. 254The protagonist becomes a humanoid vending machine, Lian Jin takes his final bow

Ling Yi led the convoy toward Qin while Zhao Pan remained imprisoned in a vending-machine-like cage and Xiang Shaolong pursued Zhao Qian. After Ling Yi killed Lian Jin, the group raced for the Qin border, where Zhao’s army blocked their way and forced an unavoidable battle.

  • Xiang Shaolong made Zhao Pan serve as a vending machine, and Zhao Pan tried to unsettle him by warning that changing history could make him disappear.
  • Zhao Pan insulted Zhao Qian, who overheard him and angrily threw food into his cage before Shan Rou led her away.
  • Ling Yi told Qin Qing about the women he had loved in other worlds, and Qin Qing urged him not to let guilt keep him from love.
  • Lian Jin challenged Ling Yi on the road, but Ling Yi swiftly killed him and buried his body beneath the earth.
  • Ling Yi ordered the convoy to hurry despite Zhu Ji asking to rest, and the group reached the Qin-Zhao border after more than ten days of forced travel.
  • Ling Yi and his companions found Zhao’s army blocking the route, and he told Yuan Zong that the battle ahead could not be avoided.

Ch. 255Slaughtering Through the Battlefield, "Zheng" Returns to Xianyang

Ling Yi and his companions charged through Li Mu’s four-hundred-thousand-strong Zhao army and escaped into Great Qin territory. After Ling Yi reprimanded Zhu Ji for endangering Zhao Qian, his followers hailed him as Zheng, and he assigned tasks for the return to Xianyang.

  • Ling Yi ordered Shan Rou, Tao Fang, Wu Yingyuan, Xiang Shaolong, Qin Qing, Zou Yan, and Yuan Zong to use their powers as the group charged Li Mu’s army.
  • Ling Yi’s force broke through the Zhao ranks and rode into Great Qin territory despite Li Mu’s attempts to stop them.
  • Ling Yi slapped Zhu Ji for pushing Zhao Qian from the carriage and warned her not to endanger his friends and family again.
  • Wu Yingyuan and the others shouted “Zheng” in support of Ling Yi, who announced they would return to Xianyang the next day.
  • Ling Yi assigned Xiang Shaolong to train a Five Elements Army, Shan Rou to build an intelligence network, and Yuan Zong to capture Cao Qiudao.

Ch. 256A Two-Thousand-Year First Emperor: Great Qin's Map Was the Map of the World

Ling Yi established an empire spanning the world, then arranged for the true First Emperor of Qin to rule it before leaving with Qin Qing and Shan Rou. He began a new transmigration as a small, highly venomous black snake, unsure where or when he had arrived.

  • Ling Yi freed Zhao Pan and recruited him to help build an invincible army, promising him the chance to travel through myriad worlds.
  • After returning to Xianyang, Ling Yi rejected Lü Buwei’s attempts to control him and challenged his claim to be Ying Zheng’s father.
  • Ling Yi succeeded King Xiang of Qin, let Shan Rou kill Cao Qiudao after one day as state preceptor, and united the world under Great Qin.
  • Ling Yi placed the true First Emperor of Qin on the throne, then left Xianyang with Qin Qing and Shan Rou while his original body and Yin Wanqing discussed an upgraded Transmigration Prediction Radar.
  • Ling Yi transmigrated into a three-year-old black snake whose bite could kill an ox, and found himself hungry and unable to identify his surroundings.

Ch. 257White Snake and Black Snake, Over Seventeen Hundred Years Before the Plot

Ling Yi, reborn as a black snake in the world of the White Snake legend, evolved by eating ants and a bee, then gained a monkey’s genes. After exploring the ancient wilderness, he called Yin Wanqing and learned how to solve the time problem and endure the long wait for the White Snake’s legend.

  • Ling Yi left his cave, where his white snake sister slept, and searched unsuccessfully for an opening to attack a troop of monkeys.
  • Ling Yi ate ants and a bee, strengthening his body and senses and gaining the ability to transform into a bee.
  • Ling Yi flew out of the cave, saw only mountains and primeval forest, and worried that he would have to wait seventeen hundred years for the White Snake’s story.
  • Ling Yi bit a monkey to acquire its genes, then transformed into a monkey and called Yin Wanqing for advice.
  • Yin Wanqing reminded Ling Yi that he could control time through the Ling Realm and suggested acquiring genes from a creature that could sleep for centuries.
  • Ling Yi decided to seek a long-sleeping creature and joked that he would give Yin Wanqing an extra egg later.

Ch. 258Slapping a toad to death forged a karmic bond; the Old Mother of Mount Li enlightened White Snake

Ling Yi killed the toad that was the future Fahai, unknowingly taking on the karma that had belonged to White Snake, while the Old Mother of Mount Li visited their cave and taught White Snake a cultivation technique. After finding a seaside town, Ling Yi witnessed villagers offering livestock and children to Guanyin, just as powerful beings approached and an invisible presence noticed him.

  • Ling Yi explored the mountains, killed a toad that was actually the future Fahai, and unknowingly inherited White Snake’s karmic connection with him.
  • The Old Mother of Mount Li found Ling Yi and White Snake’s cave, taught the sleeping White Snake a cultivation technique, and said she might accept him as a disciple if he became an immortal.
  • Ling Yi flew east, found a seaside town, acquired human genes, and transformed into a young man.
  • Ling Yi followed villagers to the shore and watched them prepare pigs, cattle, and six children as offerings to Guanyin.
  • As the villagers prayed, a powerful creature approached through the sea and an invisible powerhouse appeared above; Ling Yi looked up and drew its attention.

Ch. 259A Different Guanyin, the Little White Snake in Danger

Ling Yi learned why a thousand-year-old crab spirit had been demanding human sacrifices in Guanyin’s name, then killed the spirit when Guanyin let it flee. After returning to There Is a Cave with Guanyin, Ling Yi found a troubling scene inside.

  • Guanyin told Ling Yi that the crab spirit had once helped the fishing village prosper but began demanding young people as sacrifices after it tasted human essence.
  • Guanyin explained that the immortal peach trees had withered as the world’s spiritual Qi faded, and that the Investiture of the Gods Calamity had made merit and karma separate, binding gods and Buddhas to strict consequences.
  • The crab spirit threatened villagers, then released them and tried to escape after Guanyin agreed to spare it; Ling Yi intercepted and killed it, gaining its armor genes and keeping its pincers.
  • Guanyin gave Ling Yi a jade vase that could store objects when he recited its incantation, and Ling Yi used it to put away the crab pincers.
  • Ling Yi and Guanyin returned to There Is a Cave, where Ling Yi’s expression darkened at what he saw inside.

Ch. 260The White Snake Vanished into a Tribulation, Parasitic Assimilation

Ling Yi discovered that the little white snake had been taken away while undergoing her first cultivation tribulation, and Guanyin found that she was safe. After Guanyin refused Ling Yi’s parasitic seed, they flew to find the snake, and Ling Yi learned that this Primordial World’s history had changed after a mysterious powerhouse disrupted the Witch-Demon Calamity.

  • Ling Yi and Guanyin used the Light-Reversal Technique to reconstruct the cave’s past and saw three men capture the sleeping little white snake.
  • Guanyin tracked the little white snake and told Ling Yi that she had been rescued and was undergoing a tribulation that would aid her cultivation.
  • Ling Yi offered Guanyin a parasitic seed that could grant genetic abilities but leave its user under his control, and Guanyin refused it.
  • Ling Yi asked Guanyin to take him to the little white snake, and they flew toward the southern part of Mount Juehuang.
  • Guanyin explained that a mysterious powerhouse had altered the Witch-Demon Calamity by attacking Mount Buzhou and the Heavenly Court, and Ling Yi wondered if that person had been him.

Ch. 261White Snake's Love Trial Begins, the Protagonist's Golden Finger

Ling Yi and Guanyin reached Snake-Catching Village as Xu Yan fled into Mount Juehuang with the little white snake, pursued by three cultivators seeking to sell her. Xu Yan was killed, but completed his Plot Mission System objective and returned to Xu Xian seventeen hundred years later with its minimum reward.

  • Ling Yi and Guanyin discussed how the Calamity had ended and arrived above Snake-Catching Village, where Xu Yan was hiding the little white snake.
  • Xu Yan carried White Snake into Mount Juehuang to protect her, while the straight-mustached man and the goateed man pursued him and learned from the drooping-mustached man that she was a Five Elements Snake.
  • The drooping-mustached man contacted Ming Shi to report that the Five Elements Water Snake had been found, while Xu Yan hid with White Snake in a hollow tree.
  • White Snake briefly grew enormous, then shrank again; she grew attached to Xu Yan, but the goateed man stabbed him before she could transform to defend him.
  • Xu Yan died after White Snake's affection reached 60, completing the mission's minimum requirements, and the Plot Mission System returned him to Xu Xian's body seventeen hundred years later.

Ch. 262Feeling like an old father, White Snake was about to take human form

Ling Yi protected White Snake and learned that gods and Buddhas were competing for merit as their cultivation regressed. Two hundred years later, White Snake neared human form while awaiting Xu Yan’s reincarnation, and a sudden commotion interrupted a meal in Ling Yi’s cave.

  • The Tiger-Taming Arhat and Jade Rabbit arrived, killed the two mustached men to claim merit, and Guanyin explained that merit stabilized the heavens’ declining cultivation.
  • Ling Yi reassured White Snake that Xu Yan would return through reincarnation, declined Guanyin’s offer to train her, and warned himself to remain on Mount Juehuang.
  • Ming Shi found the corpses, suspected the Buddhist School had taken White Snake, and killed his surviving subordinate before vanishing.
  • Two hundred years later, Ling Yi teased White Snake about her food and her wait for Xu Yan, whose reincarnations had rarely been human.
  • The rabbit spirit dug into Ling Yi’s cave to join White Snake and Ling Yi for a meal, but a rumbling and scream outside abruptly interrupted them.

Ch. 263Fahai's reincarnation, slapped dead by Ling Yi once again

Ling Yi saved the monk Facheng, whose fanatical hatred of demons led him to attack White Snake and the rabbit; after Ling Yi drove him into demonic corruption, he killed him and learned Facheng reincarnated as a crab. Three hundred years later, White Snake prepared to undergo her tribulation, while Guanyin revealed that human unity had weakened spiritual Qi and was preparing to use a Parasitic Seed.

  • Ling Yi healed the badly injured Facheng with a Healing Seed, but Facheng immediately tried to kill White Snake and the rabbit, so Ling Yi restrained him and challenged his belief that all demons were evil.
  • Ling Yi's arguments shattered Facheng's convictions, and Facheng embraced the idea of destroying everything; Ling Yi declared him a devil and slapped him into an oil painting, sending him to reincarnate.
  • Facheng regained memories of his previous lives in the Underworld, realized Ling Yi had killed him twice, and reincarnated as a crab.
  • Three hundred years later, White Snake reached the peak of her cultivation and prepared to take human form during the full moon, with Ling Yi and Guanyin nearby to support her tribulation.
  • Guanyin told Ling Yi that humanity had unified a hundred states and that its growing fortune had weakened spiritual Qi and made faith and merit the immortals' and Buddhas' main sources of power; she said she was preparing to use a Parasitic Seed.

Ch. 264Little White Sneaked Down the Mountain, a Second Run Through the Snake-Catching Village Plot

After Bai Suzhen transformed, Ling Yi tried to stop her from seeking Xu Yan’s reincarnation, but she sneaked away and reached Snake-Catching Village, where she met Xu Xuan. Ling Yi followed her, while Ming Shi sensed the presence of a five-element snake and wondered whether the water snake had appeared.

  • The lightning tribulation retreated at Ling Yi’s command and gave White Snake spiritual Qi, allowing him to transform into Bai Suzhen.
  • Bai Suzhen wanted to find Xu Yan’s reincarnation, but Ling Yi refused and predicted she would sneak down the mountain; Cihang then returned to the South Sea to adapt to her new power.
  • Bai Suzhen left Mount Juehuang at night, got lost, and eventually arrived at Snake-Catching Village, where she met Xu Xuan, Xu Yan’s reincarnation.
  • Xu Xuan invited Bai Suzhen to stay at his home, and the two pretended not to know each other while Ling Yi watched from above.
  • Ming Shi sensed a five-element snake and wondered whether the five-element water snake had appeared.

Ch. 265Awkward dialogue: the protagonist botched his performance

Xu Xuan’s attempt to win Bai Suzhen’s favor failed after he bragged about raising and eating snakes, and Ming Shi killed him. The protagonist was sent back twelve hundred years to Bai Suzhen’s fight with Ming Shi, where her magic treasures helped her defeat him.

  • Xu Xuan told Bai Suzhen that he had taught Snake-Catching Village to raise and eat snakes, causing her favorability toward him to plummet.
  • Ming Shi appeared and killed Xu Xuan after he stepped in front of Bai Suzhen, and the protagonist returned to Xu Xian’s body.
  • The system gave the protagonist an ultimate mission to become Pangu and alter the Primordial World’s course before the Witch-Demon Calamity, threatening to unbind if he failed.
  • Twelve hundred years earlier, Bai Suzhen used Ling Yi’s Parasitic Seeds to summon a shield, armor, and sword against Ming Shi.
  • Bai Suzhen refused to reveal Ling Yi’s identity, and her armor protected her while Ming Shi attacked.
  • Bai Suzhen’s sword burrowed into Ming Shi’s body and caused him to writhe before he collapsed and stopped moving.

Ch. 266The protagonist stirred up trouble and changed heaven and earth; Mount Juehuang became Mount Qingcheng

Ling Yi used a Parasitic Seed to help Xiaoyu transform, then watched Mount Juehuang become Mount Qingcheng after someone changed history and reshaped the continent. While Ling Yi slept for five hundred years, Cihang battled the Heavenly Court and Spirit Mountain before handing them the seeds; after Ling Yi awoke, they planned to restore order to the Mortal World Realm.

  • Ling Yi gave Xiaoyu a Parasitic Seed, and she transformed into a human who looked almost identical to Bai Suzhen.
  • Ling Yi sensed history changing and took Bai Suzhen and Xiaoyu into the sky as Mount Juehuang crumbled and became Mount Qingcheng.
  • Cihang explained that her memories had changed and that a false Pangu had shattered the continent into the shape of the Nine Provinces.
  • Ling Yi slept for five hundred years while Cihang searched for genes and fought the Heavenly Court and Spirit Mountain, defeating their forces repeatedly.
  • Cihang handed over the Parasitic Seeds at talks in the Heavenly Court, and Ling Yi revealed that she had waited for his return before doing so.
  • Ling Yi and Cihang decided to save the Mortal World Realm, and Ling Yi planned to take Bai Suzhen and the others down the mountain to gain experience.

Ch. 267Old Mother of Mount Li reappeared, Bai Suzhen refused to become her disciple

Ling Yi confronted Old Mother of Mount Li when she accused him of destroying the continents and tried to recruit Bai Suzhen, then left with his companions after Bai Suzhen stopped him from killing her. Five hundred years later, Xu Xian learned that his system was trying to protect the world from being absorbed into a Reincarnation World, though it would not name the woman behind the threat.

  • Ling Yi challenged Old Mother of Mount Li's accusations and used the Heavenly Dao's threat of world destruction to show that he could command it.
  • Old Mother of Mount Li asked Bai Suzhen to become her disciple, but Bai Suzhen refused and said she would stay with Ling Yi.
  • Old Mother of Mount Li made Bai Suzhen stumble with a strand of magical power, and Ling Yi pressed her to the ground before sparing her at Bai Suzhen's request.
  • Ling Yi told Cihang that schemers had tricked Old Mother of Mount Li into coming, then traveled with his companions for five hundred years, slaying demons and evil beings.
  • Xu Xian asked his system why it had altered the world, and it explained that it was trying to prevent the world from becoming a Reincarnation World.
  • Xu Xian's system revealed that a woman with a powerful Reincarnation System was trying to absorb all worlds, but refused to tell him her name.

Ch. 268A once-in-a-thousand-years wait, just one wait... ow!

Ling Yi said goodbye to Bai Suzhen and Xiaoyu, then sent Xu Xian through a world passage to Yin Wanqing and learned that the Ling Realm had grown stronger. He transmigrated to a new world as a junior orthopedic doctor and headed out with an ambulance to a mass-casualty emergency.

  • Ling Yi took Bai Suzhen and Xiaoyu boating on West Lake, where they sang together as he prepared to leave.
  • Xu Xian joined their song from another boat, and Ling Yi appeared to slap him and question his Golden Core cultivation.
  • Xu Xian's system fled after warning him that Ling Yi was too powerful to provoke.
  • Ling Yi handed Xu Xian to Yin Wanqing, who explained that the Ling Realm had nearly doubled in power and discussed the possibility of reaching unfamiliar worlds.
  • Ling Yi transmigrated to a world where he was a newly hired orthopedic doctor, then rode an ambulance to a reported assault with dozens of injured people.
  • More than a dozen police cars and ambulances passed in the opposite lane, prompting Ling Yi and his coworkers to wonder what was happening at Jingyang Residential Complex.

Ch. 269Confidentiality agreement, the strange fat man

Ling Yi and his ambulance crew entered a heavily damaged residential complex after signing a national-level confidentiality agreement, where his aura identified a supernatural patient among the injured. During the escorted trip to a secondhand market, Ling Yi negotiated with the bald fat man and helped him escape by switching places with the driver.

  • Police made Ling Yi, Old Zheng, and the nurse sign confidentiality agreements before allowing them into the damaged complex.
  • Ling Yi's passive aura downloaded a level-six sonic ability, a level-four physique, and memories from one of the three unconscious patients; he identified the bald fat man as the target and took the two abilities.
  • The fat man woke in the ambulance, crushed its iron stretcher handle, and demanded that the driver pull over, but Ling Yi persuaded him to keep going and offered to help him escape.
  • At the secondhand market, the fat man exchanged clothes with the driver, knocked him unconscious, and drove the ambulance to the entrance while Ling Yi and the others posed as patients.
  • Ling Yi told the fat man the surveillance cameras were broken, giving him a reason to leave; after he drove off, Old Zheng pointed out that the cameras were working.

Ch. 270Questioning, volunteering to join, and Ling Yi getting cheated on

Ling Yi learned from Zhao Hai that beings from the Quantum Realm were invading through human bodies, then volunteered to join the Special Incident Defense Bureau. When he returned home, he found his girlfriend cheating on him with a middle-aged man.

  • Ling Yi told the armed police that the fat criminal was a woman in a transferred body and helped them identify surveillance footage that could aid the investigation.
  • Zhao Hai explained that R35 had opened a bridge to the Quantum Realm, whose inhabitants could use the internet to take over human bodies.
  • Ling Yi inferred that R35 was needed for body takeovers and volunteered to join the Special Incident Defense Bureau.
  • Zhao Hai identified himself as head of the Hongbei Region and told Ling Yi he would investigate him before deciding on membership.
  • Ling Yi returned home and found his girlfriend with a middle-aged man, then calmly mocked them for using his bathroom.

Ch. 271Ling Yi's partner, their first mission

Ling Yi confronted his predecessor’s girlfriend, then teamed up with Zhao Yanran to investigate the VR headset linked to a quantum human’s takeover. They reached the headset manufacturer’s factory in Dabin Province, where Zhao Yanran secretly called her father after Ling Yi told her to stay behind.

  • Ling Yi slapped and berated his predecessor’s girlfriend, then left her and the middle-aged man behind.
  • Ling Yi examined the fatty’s memories, learned he had bought a costly VR headset before encountering a mysterious red-haired woman, and saved the seller’s information.
  • Zhao Yanran contacted Ling Yi as his Defense Bureau partner, and Ling Yi learned that Zhao Hai had assigned her to investigate the case with him.
  • Ling Yi collected Zhao Yanran and an SUV, then drove with her to the headset factory in Dabin Province.
  • Ling Yi ordered Zhao Yanran to remain in the car and provide remote support, and she secretly called Zhao Hai after he entered the factory.

Ch. 272The protagonist appears, familiar blue eyes

Ling Yi investigated a factory compound and uncovered quantum invaders fighting a masked woman underground. After helping her disable the invaders, he returned with Zhao Yanran and realized the woman’s blue eyes looked familiar.

  • Ling Yi’s aura downloaded several abilities and physical attributes from people at the factory, and a wounded invader mistook him for a Defense Bureau agent.
  • Ling Yi bluffed the invader about humanity stealing divine powers, took his R35 metal patch, and found a hidden underground facility.
  • Ling Yi used the R35 patches to incapacitate two invaders fighting a masked woman, who killed them and left on a motorcycle.
  • Ling Yi told Zhao Yanran to contact Zhao Hai, then tested her suspicion that he was an invader by letting her place an R35 patch on his forehead.
  • Ling Yi recalled that the masked woman’s blue eyes looked familiar.

Ch. 273Zhao Yanran's ability, R35 Second Form

Ling Yi and Zhao Yanran flew to the Ugly Nation to disrupt its cooperation with the quantum invaders, but arrived to find an ambush. Zhao Yanran revealed that she could summon a quantum invader’s abilities through the R35 Second Form and wiped out the attackers, while Ling Yi concealed his own strength as police and helicopters closed in.

  • After the Ugly Nation announced its immersive game, Quantum Universe, Ling Yi persuaded Zhao Yanran to go to Kansas and investigate its game server.
  • Zhao Hai sent Zhao Yanran the coordinates for Babuli Farm, and Ling Yi and Zhao Yanran boarded a flight to Los Angeles.
  • At the airport, Ling Yi’s Passive Download Aura detected thirty sets of memories and abilities, and he suspected quantum invaders had learned their itinerary.
  • Zhao Yanran activated the R35 Second Form, revealing that the Defense Bureau could summon an invader whose consciousness had been erased and use its ability data.
  • Zhao Yanran used level 13 Electron Manipulation to kill the attackers, while Ling Yi pretended that her weak electric strike had knocked him down.
  • As police sirens and helicopters approached, Ling Yi smiled and anticipated the trouble ahead.

Ch. 274God Controllers, arrival at the farm

Ling Yi and Zhao Yanran stole a fighter jet from a Los Angeles military base and destroyed the advanced jets pursuing them. After learning how the Defense Bureau creates God Controllers, they reached Babuli Farm, where a mysterious woman they had met before began attacking the gate.

  • Zhao Yanran blasted the military base’s command center while Ling Yi used Electron Manipulation to steal a fighter jet, and the two escaped under fire.
  • Ling Yi and Zhao Yanran outmaneuvered three advanced triangular jets and destroyed them by targeting their engines.
  • Zhao Yanran explained that R35’s second form could annihilate an invader’s consciousness while preserving its ability data, creating God Controllers through a deadly contest of resonance.
  • Ling Yi and Zhao Yanran flew to Kansas and found Babuli Farm heavily guarded, with intelligent weapons and trucks waiting to ship gaming helmets worldwide.
  • A mysterious woman from Dabin Province arrived at the farm with a submachine gun, and Ling Yi approached her as she opened fire on the main gate.

Ch. 275The mysterious woman's identity, the true threat

Lan Rui revealed that she came from a future where the Quantum Universe and humanity were destroyed, and explained how R35 and the Quantum Virtual World tied their fates together. After Ling Yi and Zhao Yanran helped clear a quantum-invader base, Lan Rui warned that the real threat came from space and identified the Centaurus Gray Matter Aliens as the civilization that would invade Blue Star.

  • Lan Rui cleared the farm's entrance while Ling Yi blocked automated gunfire and destroyed the weapons with telekinesis.
  • Lan Rui explained that her universe faced destruction by a quantum black hole and had invaded humanity's world through R35 and the Quantum Virtual World.
  • Ling Yi used a black hole ability to eliminate the quantum invaders in the passage after Lan Rui warned they were buying time for divine emissary-class invaders.
  • Lan Rui removed her mask, introduced herself as Lan Rui Patlei from the Forest Domain God Realm, and recognized Zhao Yanran from their future battles.
  • Lan Rui said the Forest Domain God Realm had given a spacefaring level 2 civilization the means to produce R35 and warned that it would spread the substance through the Milky Way.
  • Lan Rui said the Centaurus Gray Matter Aliens would invade Blue Star in five years, while Ling Yi connected humanity's survival to the Quantum Virtual World.
Arc 11 of 208
Arc 11 of 208