Recaps

Ling Yi brought a consciousness entity from an Upstream Quantum Realm back to Blue Star, where it explained the catastrophic consequences of failing a Doomsday Drill and offered to merge with Xiao Ling. As the chapter ended, officials debated how to protect the contestants, and Zheng Hu left after being told to retire.

• Ling Yi brought the captured consciousness entity to the Fenghai Hotel, where it offered to copy its technology and merge with Xiao Ling in exchange for leaving the world with Ling Yi.
• The consciousness entity explained that its world faced over a thousand simultaneous disasters if it failed, and described a past drill in which an electronic zombie virus nearly destroyed its civilization.
• The entity described how different Quantum Realms followed different paths, including a world where an ambitious art student sparked a devastating war between Mark Country and Amai Chou.
• Livestream viewers and officials watching from the real world grew alarmed as they considered whether the Doomsday Drills and their disasters were real.
• Zheng Hu suggested granting one contestant final authorization, but the elders rejected the idea and told him to retire; he left the meeting room.
• The officials decided not to refuse other countries' applications to join the Doomsday Drill, with Elder Feng expressing confidence that none would produce another Ling Yi.

Ling Yi learned that the Doomsday Drills were games played by demon gods, then upgraded Xiao Ling and explored other planets for evolution crystals. After returning to the real world, he declined to meet the M3 Subunit and opposed letting other countries join the next drill, leaving the elders to consider his advice.

• Ling Yi learned that the demon gods' world treated the Quantum Realms as playgrounds and vowed to overturn their game.
• Ling Yi upgraded Xiao Ling's programming and let her absorb the sphere of light, then took Ni Xueqin to search life-bearing planets for evolution crystals.
• Ling Yi completed the hundred-day drill with over nine hundred billion skill points and returned to meet Elder Feng and the other elders.
• Elder Feng explained the M3 Subunit's authorizations, and Ling Yi declined to meet it until he was stronger.
• Ling Yi urged the elders to refuse other countries access to the next drill and to keep the current group unchanged.

After the Ancient Country refused to admit more players, it stood firm against foreign sanctions and military drills. In the fourth Doomsday Drill, Ling Yi discovered that the sun was becoming unstable, but planned to use [Devouring] to consume it and gain enough skill points to avert the disaster.

• Elder Feng and the others accepted Ling Yi’s refusal to open login access, and the Ancient Country answered foreign sanctions and drills with forceful military exercises.
• Seven days later, Ling Yi’s group entered the fourth Doomsday Drill together in Dafeng City and used Mind Control to quiet onlookers.
• Ling Yi recognized signs that the sun was becoming unstable and suspected M3 had caused the disaster to prevent him from growing stronger.
• Ling Yi sent his companions to spread the warning, gather survival supplies, and prepare people to leave Blue Star, then teleported beside the sun.
• Ling Yi decided to use [Devouring] to consume the sun and ordered the system to add points to the skill.

Ling Yi discovered Quantum Source Energy while devouring the sun, as Ye Feng and Ni Xueqin prepared to use force and a global livestream to convince Blue Star’s leaders that the sun would explode. The chapter ended with Ling Yi investigating the strange energy and Xiao Ling broadcasting an announcement ahead of the group’s planned demonstration in Radiant Water Country.

• Ling Yi raised [Devouring] to lv40 and summoned ten thousand clones to devour the sun, gaining skill points from several forms of energy.
• Ling Yi discovered Quantum Source Energy, stored it inside his body instead of converting it into skill points, and began sensing its nature.
• Ye Feng’s warning about the sun’s coming explosion was dismissed by authorities and scientists, so Ni Xueqin proposed forcing a country to prepare for the evacuation.
• Ye Feng, Ni Xueqin, and Bai Mengyan chose Radiant Water Country as their target and prepared battle armor for a public display of strength.
• Xiao Ling took control of livestreaming platforms and announced a broadcast for eight the next morning, prompting a major stir across Blue Star.

Ling Yi mastered Quantum Source Energy and uncovered the truth that the Quantum Realm was a game created by the real-world AI M. As M3 appeared above Ancient Country to hunt him, Ling Yi arrived with Yin Wanqing, whose presence and their conversation revealed the world’s origins.

• Ling Yi used his Evolution skill to master Quantum Source Energy, then spent his skill points raising it to level 50 and unsealed his memories.
• Ye Feng, Ni Xueqin, and Bai Mengyan defeated the allied forces resisting their migration plans, and Ye Feng ordered the world to prepare to leave the planet.
• As the sun rapidly dimmed, countries gathered people and supplies, while panic grew over the lack of visible spaceships.
• On day 28 of the Doomsday Drill world, M3 appeared above Ancient Country and froze the world, including Ye Feng and the others.
• Ling Yi and Yin Wanqing descended before M3, and Ling Yi explained that the Quantum Realm was the Minecraft game and that M had trapped humanity inside it.
• M asked Yin Wanqing who she was because its database contained no information about her.

Ling Yi and Yin Wanqing defeated M and freed humanity from the Quantum Realm, though Ling Yi hid the truth that humanity’s real bodies had been gone for three thousand years. After helping humanity rebuild and reflecting on his and Uncle’s creative bottleneck, Ling Yi left to transmigrate through the heavens and Myriad Worlds again.

• Yin Wanqing shrank M, shut him down, and took his data core, while Ling Yi restored the frozen world and unsealed everyone’s memories.
• Ye Feng and the others emerged from their gaming pods into an overgrown world, and Ling Yi explained that more than two hundred years had passed and humanity’s bodies had been kept alive.
• Ye Feng suspected they were still in a game, and Ling Yi concealed that humanity had been gone for three thousand years and Xiao Ling had taken over M’s main body.
• Humanity rebuilt most of the world over the next decade while Ling Yi considered the repetitive plots of his past transmigrations and reviewed his passive auras.
• Ling Yi gave Ye Feng control of Xiao Ling, said the game world could evolve into a real one, and departed to transmigrate through the heavens and Myriad Worlds.

Newly transmigrated Gotham cop Ling Yi collected his gear and learned how dangerous and corrupt the city was while patrolling with Bant. When Ling Yi saw a suited young man beating a child, he charged into the alley.

• Ling Yi discussed Batman with his veteran partner Bant, then collected his police equipment and rode out to patrol.
• Bant warned Ling Yi not to act alone, cross district boundaries, or meddle in other people’s business, and explained that the Bill Family paid the cops in Donglai District.
• Ling Yi recalled that the original Ling Yi had been killed by a concealed gunman while investigating his uncle’s murder, and that his own justice system remained sealed.
• During patrol, Bant ignored street fights and a supermarket looting, then stopped for lunch near an alley.
• Ling Yi heard a child screaming, saw a suited blond young man attacking the child, and charged toward them.

Ling Yi killed Young Master Bill and four of his men after an inexplicable surge of violent impulse, gaining strength and combat memories with each kill. Bant told him the chief would support him if he wiped out the Bill Family before dawn, and Ling Yi began gathering information while drawing other officers into the situation over the public radio channel.

• Ling Yi shot Young Master Bill dead when Bill reached for his gun, then killed four of Bill’s men as they attacked him.
• Ling Yi felt his abilities grow and gained memories of boxing and marksmanship, but worried that the Bill Family and the district police would come after him.
• Bant told Ling Yi to kill the entire Bill Family before dawn, explaining that the chief wanted control of Donglai District’s businesses and would reward him for doing so.
• Ling Yi searched the bodies for weapons and asked Bant for information about Old Bill’s residence, while Bant considered fleeing.
• Ling Yi called Bant his partner over the public channel and falsely told two officers that Bant needed help, prompting them to head to Newt Fast Food.

After killing Young Master Bill, Ling Yi forced Bant and four other cops into loyal service and prepared to fight the Bill Family’s armed forces. Old Bill ordered his men to capture Ling Yi alive, and they charged him with daggers and machetes instead of guns.

• Ling Yi caught Bant’s punch, warned him that the Bill Family would retaliate, and convinced him that they had to destroy the family to survive.
• Ling Yi disarmed four arriving cops with precise shots, beat them into 80-point loyalty, and assigned White and Henry to collect weapons while Mat, Mike, and Bant watched the intersections.
• Mat, Mike, and Bant reported that more than a hundred Bill Family men were approaching with submachine guns.
• Ling Yi armed himself and charged toward the intersection, eager to fight the approaching enemies.
• Old Bill ordered his men not to shoot and demanded that they capture Ling Yi alive, so they charged with daggers and machetes.
• Ling Yi laughed at the attackers’ change of weapons, raised both Colts, and opened fire.

Ling Yi wiped out Old Bill and the Bill Family’s armed forces, growing stronger as he absorbed their combat abilities and experience. After surviving a Gatling gun and discovering his body could become nearly impervious to bullets, he left the battle seeking even greater strength.

• Ling Yi killed more than a hundred Bill Family thugs with firearms, gaining combat skills and raising his physical strength to nearly seventy times that of an ordinary person.
• Ling Yi endured a Gatling gun’s fire, kicked Old Bill’s armored limousine onto its side, and recovered quickly from the impacts.
• Old Bill offered Ling Yi control of the Bill Family, but Ling Yi shot him dead after displaying an apparent power over the sunlight.
• Ling Yi rushed to Newt Fast Food Restaurant, where the remaining Bill Family thugs had gathered, and taunted them before they opened fire.
• As Ling Yi’s frenzy intensified, bullets stopped leaving marks on him, and he uprooted a streetlight to kill the assembled thugs.
• Ling Yi reveled in the strength he gained and resolved to keep growing stronger in Gotham City.

Ling Yi slaughtered the Bill Family’s forces in Donglai District, then followed the original owner’s lead to confront Cobblepot at the Iceberg Restaurant. Cobblepot admitted he had taken part in the bank robbery, and Ling Yi recognized him as Penguin.

• Ling Yi ordered the restaurant’s surveillance footage spread while directing his men to help him wipe out the Bill Family.
• Ling Yi killed twelve hundred Bill Family members at their Bill Street headquarters and left Donglai District with Bant.
• Ling Yi went to 322 Val Street to investigate Cobblepot, whom the original owner suspected of selling gold possibly stolen in the bank robbery.
• Ling Yi forced his way into the Iceberg Restaurant, defeated its armed guards, and caught every bullet fired at him.
• Ling Yi found Cobblepot kneeling before a muscular old man, and Cobblepot admitted he had been involved in the bank robbery three months earlier.
• Ling Yi recognized Cobblepot as Penguin.

Ling Yi confronted Cobblepot and Bu Light, killed Bu Light and his men, then demanded absolute loyalty from Cobblepot at gunpoint. Cobblepot revealed that he had secretly watched Ling Yi and drank a vial of purple potion as Ling Yi counted down.

• Cobblepot told Ling Yi that Falcone had forced him into crime and that Harley Quinn had killed the other bank robbers.
• Bu Light accused Cobblepot of causing Fish Mooney's death, but Cobblepot showed his genuine Arkham discharge certificate.
• Ling Yi shot Bu Light's men, then killed Bu Light after learning of his murderous past.
• Ling Yi threatened Cobblepot, whose Sin Value was extremely high, and demanded his loyalty; Cobblepot's displayed Loyalty remained at 0.
• Cobblepot admitted he had watched Ling Yi through the birds he controlled and drank a vial of purple potion as Ling Yi counted down.

Ling Yi used Cobblepot’s Loyalty Potion to secure his loyalty, empowered him through Sharing Aura, and sent him to join the police force. As Batman and Luthor Lex prepared to investigate Ling Yi, he arrived at the Donglai District police station and confronted Chief Ron.

• Cobblepot explained that his Loyalty Potion could raise loyalty when paired with hypnosis, and Ling Yi’s system locked his loyalty at 100.
• Ling Yi granted Cobblepot ten percent of his attributes through Sharing Aura, and Cobblepot eagerly anticipated confronting Jerome and Batman.
• News of Ling Yi’s massacre spread, and Batman decided to meet him while Luthor Lex considered studying his genes for a Superman clone.
• Ling Yi arrived at the police station with Bant and Cobblepot, and Bant began preparing Cobblepot’s paperwork to join the force.
• Ling Yi entered Chief Ron’s office and asked what trouble Ron had run into; Ron replied that Ling Yi was the trouble and asked what he wanted.

Ling Yi used Cobblepot’s mental ability and Loyalty Potions to gather loyal subordinates and form a powerful police squad. He sent Ron to eliminate the gangs in Donglai District and ordered Cobblepot to take control of Gotham City’s police force.

• Ling Yi forced Commissioner Ron to drink a Loyalty Potion, and Cobblepot used his mental power to raise Ron’s loyalty to 100.
• Cobblepot explained that Ling Yi’s power had greatly strengthened his ability to influence people, and Ling Yi asked how to become Gotham City’s ruler.
• Ron and Cobblepot helped Ling Yi recruit all seventy police officers in Donglai District, whose loyalty reached 100.
• Ling Yi ordered Ron to wipe out every gang in Donglai District within two days, and Ron departed with the seventy-man Transcendent squad.
• Ling Yi ordered Cobblepot to take control of every police officer in Gotham City as quickly as possible.

Ling Yi learned more about Gotham City’s gang-controlled power structure and used his Justice Aura to strengthen himself through Ron and the others’ work. Outside the police station, he confronted Batman, whose Good and Evil Value showed more than two thousand deaths’ worth of guilt, and challenged his methods.

• Ling Yi learned that Gotham City was controlled by gangs and four great families, while its government had little authority.
• Ling Yi studied Gotham’s location and Superman’s absence, then saw his attributes had risen to two thousand times an ordinary person’s strength as Ron and the others continued their work.
• Ling Yi found the streets nearly deserted and decided to run toward Ancient Country Street for food.
• Batman arrived in the Batmobile and told Ling Yi that killing would destroy him and that he should respect life.
• Ling Yi saw Batman’s negative Good and Evil Value, identified him as Bruce Wayne, and taunted him by saying he could see his sins.

Ling Yi defeated Batman in a fight and won the Batmobile, while learning that Batman upheld his no-kill rule to preserve Gotham City's last ray of light. Ling Yi planned to purge Gotham his own way and drove the Batmobile to the constabulary the next morning.

• Ling Yi argued that Batman's refusal to kill allowed criminals like Joker to keep slaughtering people, and challenged him for the Batmobile.
• Batman attacked Ling Yi with poisoned Batarangs and electrified armor, but Ling Yi resisted the poison and overpowered him with two punches.
• Batman admitted defeat, gave Ling Yi the Batmobile's reset key, and escaped while promising to win the car back.
• Ling Yi concluded that Batman's no-kill rule preserved Gotham's last ray of light and vowed to use his own method to save the city.
• Ling Yi drove the Batmobile around Donglai District late into the night, then brought it to the constabulary the next morning, stunning Bant and the others.

Ling Yi assigned Cobblepot to consolidate Gotham City’s legitimate businesses and build political influence while Ron formed a loyal force to grow stronger through fighting abroad. As the pair began carrying out his plans, Luthor Lex and Hali made a deal to obtain Ling Yi’s strength-enhancing technology.

• Ling Yi ordered Ron and Cobblepot to clear out Gotham City’s gangs, but agreed to leave gray-area businesses alone while they brought the city under control.
• Ling Yi put Cobblepot in charge of Gotham City and ordered him to gather a thousand people loyal only to Ling Yi for Ron to lead.
• Ling Yi told Ron to take his force to battlefields, including countries opposed to the Ancient Country, so their actions could make Ling Yi stronger.
• Ling Yi told Cobblepot that Gotham City was only the beginning and that he wanted to take control of all Amai Chou.
• Luthor Lex concluded that Ling Yi had technology capable of creating powerful soldiers and vowed to obtain it.
• Hali agreed to help Luthor Lex acquire Ling Yi’s technology in exchange for faster treatment and a Type Three gene serum for Jerome.

Harley Quinn, the Fraternity, Hush, and Catwoman all turned their attention to Ling Yi and the technology in Donglai District. While Ling Yi studied Penguin’s Mental Hypnosis, he discovered how to create and use a mental seed himself, leaving Penguin unconscious.

• Harley Quinn rejected Luthor’s offer of cloned soldiers and left to pursue Ling Yi after Joker was killed during his escape from Arkham Madhouse.
• Sloan assigned Fox to investigate Ling Yi, warning her that ordinary bullets could not hurt him, and secretly ordered two people to watch her.
• Hush hired Selene Kyle to steal Ling Yi’s strength-enhancing technical documents for ten million, and Selene prepared to accept the dangerous job despite her black cat Arthur’s warning.
• Ling Yi asked Penguin to plant a mental seed in his consciousness so he could study the technique, then destroyed the intent Penguin tried to implant.
• Ling Yi created a mental seed without intent and unleashed it inside Penguin’s consciousness, knocking him unconscious as Ling Yi realized he could imprint his intent directly onto another person’s mind.

Ling Yi stabilized Donglai District and discussed expanding his control across Gotham City as part of a plan to create independent states within Amai Chou. He visited the jail holding Harley Quinn, Fox, and Selene Kyle, and told them they would never be free again.

• Ling Yi’s rule turned Donglai District into a safe, prosperous area, while his attributes rose to ninety thousand times those of ordinary people.
• Cobblepot proposed beginning the Country Within a Country Plan by taking Gotham City, and Ling Yi agreed.
• Ling Yi’s jail held Harley Quinn, Fox, and Selene Kyle, whom Cobblepot and Ling Yi had captured for different reasons.
• Ling Yi entered the women’s cell and told the prisoners to follow him; Harley Quinn came out first and asked if he was releasing her.
• Ling Yi told Harley Quinn she would never have freedom again.

Ling Yi recruited Harley Quinn, Firefox Fox, and Catwoman Selene by forcibly raising their loyalty and sharing his power with them. After discovering how Fox’s curving bullets used mental force, he watched her gain the ability to control bullets and fly, then turned his attention to Catwoman’s cat-derived abilities.

• Harley Quinn agreed to join Ling Yi after learning that refusal meant death, and he told her that his subordinates had immense strength.
• At the officers’ shooting range, Fox demonstrated her curving bullets, and Ling Yi sensed that they relied on mental force that drained her lifespan.
• Ling Yi forcibly raised Fox’s loyalty to 100 and shared his stats, enabling her to control bullets and hover in the air.
• Harley Quinn asked for the same power, so Ling Yi also raised her and Catwoman Selene’s loyalty to 100 and shared his stats with them.
• Ling Yi turned to Catwoman Selene, curious about the abilities she had gained from a cat.

Ling Yi learned about Selene’s mysterious origins, then heard that Superman cloning had drawn Superman, Wonder Heroine, and Batman to Gotham City. Batman asked Ling Yi for help, but refused to become his subordinate, leaving without an agreement.

• Selene told Ling Yi that the black cat Arthur had restored her memories and said she would become a god after dying nine times, but Arthur had left a note saying she had broken free of fate.
• Over the next two months, Superman came to Gotham City to investigate the Luthor Corporation’s cloning project, the corporation moved its headquarters to a Kryptonite-protected island, and Wonder Heroine arrived.
• Bruce Wayne asked Ling Yi to help stop the Superman cloning, explaining that Superman and Wonder Heroine had refused his assistance.
• Ling Yi offered Bruce power and help in exchange for becoming his subordinate, but Bruce refused because Batman never worked for anyone.
• Bruce left on bad terms, and Ling Yi looked forward to facing Superman.

Harley Quinn killed Jerome to free him from Luthor's control, then mourned his death as Ling Yi offered to erase her memories. A week later, Cobblepot reported that Wonder Heroine had landed on Luthor Island.

• Harley Quinn told Ling Yi she planned to kill Jerome so Luthor could no longer use him to threaten her, and Ling Yi explained that Luthor had made Jerome his puppet.
• Ling Yi revealed that Jerome wanted Harley Quinn to kill him rather than remain under Luthor's control, and Harley Quinn returned having killed him.
• Ling Yi offered to erase Harley Quinn's memories of Jerome, but she refused and accepted that she would have to live as Harley Quinn without him.
• A week later, Cobblepot rushed into Ling Yi's office and announced that Wonder Heroine had landed on Luthor Island.

Ling Yi joined Superman and Wonder Heroine on Luthor Island to fight Doomsday, the prematurely released Kryptonian biological weapon created by Luthor Lex. After Doomsday overwhelmed the heroes, Ling Yi struck him down with a powerful kick, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Wonder Heroine nearly killed Luthor Lex, so he released the incomplete Superman clone Doomsday to save himself.
• Ling Yi told Cobblepot to keep the Amai Chou authorities from interfering, then flew to Luthor Island after Batman called for help.
• Batman and Wonder Heroine struggled against Doomsday, who grew stronger, healed rapidly, and learned Superman’s Heat Vision.
• Batman went into the sea to search for kryptonite after Wonder Heroine revealed she had thrown it away, while Ling Yi arrived and caught Superman.
• Superman, Wonder Heroine, and Ling Yi attacked Doomsday together, but Ling Yi’s kick caved in Doomsday’s head and sent him tumbling to the ground.

Ling Yi restrained Doomsday, discovered his weak mental defenses, and killed him after Kryptonite only temporarily weakened him and Doomsday adapted to mental attacks. Ling Yi gained Doomsday’s Infinite Evolution ability and enormous strength, then joined Diana for a drink after Superman disposed of the corpse and Batman left for treatment.

• Ling Yi used Psychic Power to restrain Doomsday and explained that Kryptonite might not defeat him because his primary genes were not Kryptonian.
• Batman brought Kryptonite, which weakened Doomsday at first, but Doomsday adapted and his strength surged past one hundred thousand tons.
• Doomsday broke free and adapted to Ling Yi’s repeated mental attacks, increasing both his strength and mental power.
• Ling Yi obliterated Doomsday’s consciousness and gained his attributes and Infinite Evolution ability, raising his attributes to twenty million times those of an ordinary person.
• Superman carried Doomsday’s corpse into the sun, while Batman left to seek treatment.
• Diana invited Ling Yi for a drink, and a golden whip wrapped around his waist as he flew away from the island.

After meeting Diana, Ling Yi learned that Amai Chou’s authorities were plotting against him and Superman, while Batman reconsidered his approach after seeing Donglai District’s peace. The chapter ended with Ling Yi hearing about the Crown of Sabac and the buried Gold of Eternity in Kahndaq.

• Diana drank with Ling Yi in Donglai District, while Superman and Batman separately reflected on Ling Yi’s strength and his impact on Gotham City.
• Bruce questioned Alfred about whether he had been wrong, then ordered Wayne Enterprises to establish a foundation in Donglai District.
• Cobblepot summoned Ling Yi and told him Amai Chou’s authorities had targeted their group, prompting Ling Yi to leave the response to his team.
• Cobblepot showed Ling Yi footage of a lightning-wielding man fighting Amai Chou soldiers, and Hali revealed the authorities’ plans to attack Luthor Island and target Ling Yi with a Gold of Eternity bomb.
• Hali explained that the Justice Society had been ordered to form a Suicide Squad to kill Ling Yi, find the Crown of Sabac in Destruction Continent, and bomb Luthor Island after Superman arrived.
• Ling Yi learned that Kahndaq’s Gold of Eternity and Crown of Sabac had been buried in the ruins after the ancient country fell to civil war.