Recaps

After returning to the real world, Ling Yi shared scientific knowledge with the Ancient Science Academy and gathered Daoist arts, but a string of disappointing transmigrations left him irritable. He paused transmigration to adjust to the decades he had experienced in other worlds, and the story ended after his high school entrance exams.

• Ling Yi sent scientific and technological knowledge to the Ancient Science Academy, which quickly established more than a hundred Southern Heavenly Gate Project initiatives.
• Lulu collected real-world Daoist arts and produced a Soul Power Version MEP, allowing Ling Yi to use Soul Power Daoist arts.
• During ten more transmigrations, Ling Yi gained little, though he practiced Daoist arts, gave Hung Chun-nam and Ip Man buffs, and delivered particle beam and hyper-curvature engine technology to the Ancient Science Academy.
• In the Rickshaw Boy World, Ling Yi used Mind Control to bring foreign leaders and financial conglomerates under the Ancient Country's lead.
• Ling Yi recognized that decades spent in other worlds, shifting identities, and few gains had made him irritable, so he decided to stop transmigrating and rest.
• While Ling Yi rested, Lulu planned to set up three laboratories, and Ling Yi remained in the real world until his high school entrance exams ended.

After the entrance exams, Ling Yi began his twenty-first transmigration and arrived in a world where his girlfriend, Ye Zihan, had died under mysterious circumstances. He learned that an invitation to Room 2808 of the Nanbin Hotel could reveal the truth and set out to investigate.

• Ling Yi reassured his parents that he had done well on the entrance exam, and Lin Ruoxi confidently said Ling Yi’s tutoring had prepared her for No. 1 High School.
• Lin Ruoxi invited Ling Yi to travel during the holidays, but he refused, and she ran off after punching him in the chest.
• At midnight, Ling Yi transmigrated into the identity of a forty-two-year-old web novel author investigating Ye Zihan’s unexplained death.
• Lulu identified the world as the setting of Assassinating the Web Novel Author and supplied Ling Yi with the novel’s contents.
• Ling Yi read an invitation directing him to Room 2808 of the Nanbin Hotel before 10 a.m. on October 8, then headed out to find the truth about Ye Zihan.

Ling Yi joined nine webnovel authors summoned to a hotel room, where Zheng Feng revealed they were connected to a string of authors’ mysterious deaths. The group compared encounters with characters from their own novels, and Feng Ziming explained that the characters appeared for only three minutes; the meeting ended with the others recognizing her as a real martial artist.

• Ling Yi arrived at room 2808 with Feng Ziming, and Zheng Feng let them into a room with seven other webnovel authors.
• Feng Ziming asked who had sent the invitations, and Zheng Feng said the authors were on a death list after nearly two hundred writers had died mysteriously.
• Jiang Wenshan described seeing characters from his novel in the real world, prompting Jiang Yue to recount similar encounters with her characters Qingchuan and the Fourth Young Master.
• Feng Ziming said a martial artist from her wuxia novel had been hunting her, and Jiang Wenshan explained that novel characters appeared for only three minutes.
• Feng Ziming removed her disguise and confirmed her identity, surprising Song Haohan and Qin Lanlan, who learned she practiced martial arts.

The authors learned that novel characters were entering reality as Guardians and Assassins, and Zheng Feng explained how the Literary World’s invasion worked. The chapter ended with Jiang Wenshan warning that the ten authors could not kill their way through the billion-plus characters in the Literary World.

• Jiang Wenshan and the other authors compared how often characters from their completed novels appeared to protect or hunt them.
• Ling Yi asked whether the authors could kill the characters hunting them, prompting Zheng Feng to explain that the invitations came from the Literary World.
• Zheng Feng revealed that completed novels formed Literary Worlds, which fanfiction had caused to merge into a world between reality and illusion.
• Zheng Feng explained that murdered authors increased the Literary World’s Literary Qi and that killing Assassins was the only way to stop its invasion.
• Zheng Feng said the authors could enter the Literary World through their invitations, but Assassins could disguise themselves among the Guardians.
• Jiang Wenshan estimated that the Literary World contained over a billion characters and challenged Feng Ziming’s suggestion that the ten authors could kill them all.

Zheng Feng explained how the ten invitations were made and how they could enter the Literary World, while Ling Yi urged everyone to face the assassins by gaining Literary Qi. The group agreed to enter through Zheng Feng’s connection to Ye Zihan’s magical-fantasy world the next afternoon, and Ling Yi claimed he could obtain guns.

• Zheng Feng explained that he received Literary Qi after killing Aosituo, and Lin Chen used it to make the ten invitations and gave them to him to deliver.
• Ling Yi explained that they could enter the Literary World by tearing an invitation near a novel protagonist, then argued they needed its power to fight assassins and protect the real world.
• The group shared their assassination dates, and Ling Yi advised against entering through Song Haohan and Qin Lanlan’s xianxia world the next day.
• Ling Yi proposed entering Ye Zihan’s magical-fantasy world to hunt magic beasts for Literary Qi, equipment, items, and skills; Zheng Feng revealed that killing Aosituo had made him an assassin target.
• Everyone agreed to enter the Literary World the next afternoon, and Ling Yi said he could get guns.

Ling Yi established himself as a member of the 812 Special Affairs Group and gathered the webnovel authors to prepare for their fight. After discussing how Literary Worlds form, he brought guns for the group and took them to practice.

• Ling Yi claimed he belonged to the special affairs group, and Jiang Wenshan verified his identity through official records.
• Ling Yi arranged a group meal and told Jiang Wenshan to find a training ground so everyone could learn to handle firearms.
• Zheng Feng and the others discussed their writing careers and grew more comfortable with one another over lunch.
• Ling Yi asked Lulu about Literary Worlds, and they speculated that his ineffective transmigrations might take him into individual Literary Worlds.
• Lulu left to plan tests for detecting quantum transfer in the real world.
• Ling Yi returned with ten submachine guns, ten handguns, and ammunition, then followed Jiang Wenshan to the training ground with the group.

Ling Yi led Zheng Feng and the others into the Literary World after he and Jiang Wenshan killed the mage assassin with submachine guns. Once there, the group followed Ling Yi through the forest, where they fought Black Flame Demon Wolves and began to level up.

• Ling Yi and Jiang Wenshan shot the mage assassin dead as the assassin appeared near Zheng Feng, and Ling Yi sensed the Literary Qi he gained.
• Ling Yi told everyone to tear open their invitations, and the group entered the Literary World while Lulu possessed Lin Chen and returned there in his identity.
• Ling Yi led the group through the forest, explaining that they should focus on leveling up because assassins and Guardians would come looking for them.
• After two hours of walking, Ling Yi spotted a pack of thirteen Black Flame Demon Wolves and assigned the group targets.
• Ling Yi and the others opened fire, killing the wolves in a brief battle, and Jiang Yue realized she had leveled up as Zheng Feng spotted what might be dropped equipment.

Ling Yi and the others leveled up in the semi-digitized Magic World region, collected equipment, and settled into a stronger routine after defeating magical beasts. Their discussion turned to hunting protagonists for their golden fingers, while Ling Yi kept secret that the Guardian and Assassin Factions shared the same leader.

• Zheng Feng showed the group how to open their data panels, and Ling Yi’s stats appeared as question marks because they exceeded the region’s detection range.
• The group rolled dice to distribute the wolves’ equipment and Fireball skill books, then fought more magical beasts until everyone reached level 5.
• When the group lacked supplies for the night, Ling Yi produced camping gear and food, and everyone set up camp and ate hot pot.
• Zheng Feng suggested that killing protagonists might make their golden fingers drop as loot, and Ling Yi explained that such drops might depend on each region’s rules.
• Jiang Wenshan proposed targeting the leaders of the two factions, while Ling Yi privately recognized that both factions had the same leader.

Ling Yi led the group through a magical beast stampede and weighed whether it was connected to the novel’s attack on Blue Stone City, while warning that the Literary World no longer followed its original plot. After the party reached level 7, he decided to give them cheats to speed up their growth.

• Ling Yi ordered everyone into the trees as a horde of first- and second-tier magical beasts thundered through their camp, then led the group away after the beasts passed.
• After killing Black Flame Demon Wolves, Ling Yi and the others discussed whether the horde was heading toward Blue Stone City and concluded that the novel’s plot and timeline could only serve as a reference.
• Ling Yi refused to let the group contact natives because doing so could expose them to assassins before they were strong enough to fight back.
• Yu Lan apologized for complaining about the lack of baths, and Ling Yi promised that everyone would be able to take a hot bath that night.
• The group gained only one level by evening, reaching level 7, so Ling Yi decided to give them cheats instead of making them grind for months or years.

Ling Yi brought a luxurious villa into the Magical Beast Forest and gave the protagonist group Soul Beast Master Awakening Stones and devices that rapidly strengthened their Literary Qi. After the group awakened a range of talents, they discussed their suspicions about Ling Yi and decided to trust him for now.

• Ling Yi summoned a lavish villa from his Soul Beast Space, impressing the group with its gold furnishings and miniature fusion power.
• Ling Yi warned that the Literary World held powerful realms but said its inhabitants were currently restricted, then promised to help the group grow stronger.
• Guan Hu used an Awakening Stone and gained a Soul Beast Space and the Strength Amplification talent, confirming that the stones worked in this world.
• Zheng Feng, Feng Ziming, Jiang Wenshan, Jiang Yue, Yu Lan, Yu Hong, Song Haohan, and Song Haohan's wife awakened their own talents, while Ling Yi gave everyone a device to strengthen their Literary Qi.
• After Ling Yi went upstairs, the group weighed whether he had a hidden agenda and agreed to trust him while they cultivated.

Ling Yi and the others reached level 99 after spending over two months grinding Magical Beasts in the Magic Beast Mountain Range, and they began clearing the last high-tier beasts to reach level 100. As they prepared to leave for the imperial capital, Gu He arrived, identified them as Writers, and revealed that the Literary World could detect their presence.

• Ling Yi said the group would leave the Magic Beast Mountain Range for the imperial capital once they finished leveling and waited for the Assassins.
• Feng Ziming charged into the canyon and killed several thousand high-tier Magical Beasts, reaching level 100.
• Ling Yi sent Yu Lan and Yu Hong into the canyon together, explaining that his formation allowed only two people inside at a time.
• Gu He, dean of the Dragon Capital Magic Academy, arrived and explained that Writers had created the Literary World through their novels and could be identified by its inhabitants.
• Gu He said the Literary World would instantly know of and locate Writers once anyone discovered them, and explained that he had come to investigate their slaughter of Magical Beasts.
• Ling Yi asked whether Writers had entered the Literary World before his group, and whether they were not the first batch.

Ling Yi and his companions learned that the Literary World’s inhabitants knew their novels’ plots and that Writers had long faced hostility after one slaughtered hundreds of domains for Literary Qi. Gu He brought them to the Dragon Capital Magic Academy, where they settled in as assassins were expected to come after them.

• Gu He explained that a Writer’s massacre of hundreds of Literary World domains had turned its inhabitants against Writers and helped create the Guardian and Assassin factions.
• Jiang Wenshan learned that Immortal Grade experts had revealed the novels’ plots, prompting protagonists and antagonists to form opposing factions.
• Gu He admitted that the Assassin Faction knew about Ling Yi’s group and could surveil him, then taught Ling Yi a Probe spell that identified factions within the domain.
• Ling Yi opened a spatial rift and took the group to the Dragon Capital Magic Academy, where Gu He stopped the alarm and arranged a courtyard for them.
• Feng Ziming admired the academy’s magic appliances, and Qin Lanlan pointed out they could work in the real world if the Literary World invaded and fused with it.

Jiang Wenshan proposed creating a powerful Literary World to control the invading Literary World, and Yu Lan agreed to write a short story about an AI protecting humanity. When assassins approached Dragon Capital, most of the group returned to the real world to write while Ling Yi, Guan Hu, and Feng Ziming stayed to fight; the chapter ended with them attacking the first wave.

• Jiang Wenshan suggested that the group create a completed short story with a powerful protagonist who could control the Literary World, and Zheng Feng and Ling Yi thought the plan might work.
• Jiang Wenshan urged Yu Lan and Hong to write a short story about a powerful AI built to protect humanity, and Yu Lan agreed to start.
• Guan Hu noticed that the Magic Academy had emptied, and Ling Yi saw that Dragon Capital was being evacuated as assassins approached.
• Ling Yi decided that Feng Ziming and Guan Hu would stay to fight while the others returned to the real world with invitation letters to write.
• Guan Hu charged into the assassins with a fiery area attack that defeated many of them, and Feng Ziming followed by unleashing lightning with Ling Yi's Soul Power Daoist Arts.

Ling Yi joined Lulu in the Primordial World mythology novel’s Literary World domain, where they discussed how cheats worked and whether to end the plot early. The chapter left Ling Yi unsettled by an unexplained feeling that something was missing.

• After the battle, Ling Yi chose the Sign-In System, Future Simulation System, and Travel Frog System to study their connections to the Dao of Karma, Time, and Space, while Feng Ziming and Guan Hu took other cheats.
• Ling Yi explained that cheats could not overcome a vast gap in strength, then left Feng Ziming and Guan Hu to act independently as he entered another Literary World domain.
• Feng Ziming chose the Get Stronger by Working Hard System and left to visit his novel’s domain, while Guan Hu chose the One-Punch Man System and stayed behind.
• Ling Yi reached Purple Cloud Palace and met Lulu and Literary Lord Hongjun, whose schemes had made him the sole Hongjun but left him only Human Immortal strength.
• Lulu explained that cheats were applications of Quantum Transfer and said she had perfected a device to capture it; Ling Yi proposed ending the world’s plot early.
• Ling Yi agreed that his arrival would end the plot early but said that something still felt strangely off.

After helping create a humanity-favoring Heavenly Dao in the Literary World, Ling Yi and Lulu attempted to crack his system, which led Lulu to merge with it and change his transmigration interval to once a month. Ling Yi reunited with Yin Wanqing in the Ling Realm, where she suggested leaving his next destination random.

• Ling Yi and his companions created a novel whose Literary World was absorbed by the main Literary World, giving it a Heavenly Dao that favored the Ancient Country and advanced its technology.
• After twenty years of studying the system, Lulu entered its core despite Ling Yi's objections, and Ling Yi's memories were unsealed.
• Ling Yi's original body revealed that the system core was his private space, sent Lulu back with altered memories, and returned to the Ling Realm while his clone remained in the real world.
• Lulu reappeared as the system's intelligence and changed Ling Yi's transmigration countdown from one day to one month.
• Ling Yi found Yin Wanqing relaxing in a small world, and she explained that the Ling Realm only needed to wait for the native worlds to become Karmic Luck Worlds.
• Yin Wanqing showed Ling Yi readers' comments about typos and familiar worlds, then advised him to keep his next destination random because every random pick was a surprise.

After transmigrating into the body of a spiritual-field farmer beaten to death for refusing to pay protection money, Ling Yi discovered his Infinite Passive Farming System. Its first lottery reward was a Devil Fruit Tree Seed, leaving him with a strange seed in his warehouse and no idea what it would grow.

• Ling Yi absorbed the original owner's memories and learned that he had been beaten to death for refusing to give other farmers one jin of spiritual rice each month.
• Ling Yi discovered that the original owner had sought a sect farming job to obtain a meridian-condensation cultivation art, despite the grim odds ordinary people faced in cultivation.
• Ling Yi activated the Infinite Passive Farming System and inspected its farming space, warehouse, and monthly lottery.
• Ling Yi used his lottery draw and won a Devil Fruit Tree Seed, which appeared in the system warehouse.

Ling Yi planted a Devil Fruit Tree Seed and spirit rice seeds in the Farming Space, discovering that both crops would mature in half the outside time. After buying more spirit rice seeds from Deacon Xiang Hao, Ling Yi realized the youth he had seen leaving the courtyard might also be a transmigrator.

• Ling Yi planted the Devil Fruit Tree Seed, which immediately grew eight fruits, including the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, and began a 60-day growth countdown.
• Ling Yi planted spirit rice seeds in the Farming Space and calculated that its doubled time flow could yield a harvest every month, though selling the extra rice could draw dangerous attention.
• Ling Yi went to buy spirit rice seeds and saw a thin youth speaking with Deacon Xiang Hao before leaving the courtyard.
• Ling Yi bought three bags of seeds from Xiang Hao, who warned that ordinary farmland could not support spirit rice.
• Ling Yi recognized the departing youth’s cheerful words as English and suspected that he was another transmigrator.

Ling Yi discovered that One-Click Planting worked on real spirit fields, but Xiang Hao refused his request for ten mu because he lacked the required cultivation. Over the next month, Ling Yi used One-Click Pest Elimination on nearby fields to amass more than two thousand spirit stones, while Niu Er mistook his wandering for slacking and advised him to endure his setback.

• After realizing the boy he had met might also be a transmigrator, Ling Yi used One-Click Planting to sow his real spirit field in moments.
• Ling Yi asked Xiang Hao for ten mu of spirit fields, but Xiang Hao rejected him and explained the sect’s cultivation requirements for claiming additional fields.
• Ling Yi found that cultivating the Meridian Condensation Art brought no progress without Meridian Condensation Pills, so he decided to keep a low profile.
• Over the following month, Ling Yi learned his system’s care functions and discovered that One-Click Pest Elimination earned spirit stones from his own and other farmers’ fields.
• Ling Yi accumulated more than two thousand spirit stones, then told Niu Er he had finished his work; Niu Er doubted him and advised him not to give up cultivating.

Ling Yi harvested and consumed the Devil Fruits, gaining eight divine abilities and three spiritual roots. After harvesting 1,200 jin of spiritual rice and replanting his field, he discovered that his monthly prize draw was available again.

• Ling Yi stopped using one-click on spiritual fields to avoid drawing the sect’s attention, as Deacon Xiang Hao investigated the unusually pest-free crop.
• Ling Yi harvested eight ripe Devil Fruits and learned that three of them could awaken spiritual roots.
• Ling Yi ate the Ice-Ice Fruit, gaining the Freeze Divine Ability and an ice-element spiritual root, then tested it with a small ice needle.
• Ling Yi examined the other fruits’ abilities, including control over strings, tremors, rubber, extra limbs, weapons, enlargement, and cell division.
• Ling Yi found that the Devil Fruit Tree had produced the same eight fruits again and that their next growth cycle would take 120 days.
• Ling Yi harvested 1,200 jin of spiritual rice, replanted the field, and checked his system status to find three ninth-pin spiritual roots and a newly available prize draw.

Ling Yi practiced his Devil Fruit abilities on Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain and discovered he could use the String-String ability to kill without warning. He killed Zheng Hao when the cultivator attacked Xiao Zining, then faced a choice when she said she was dying and asked him for help.

• Ling Yi transformed his body and clothes, then went to Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain to practice his abilities.
• Ling Yi refined his ice techniques and used threads to control ice needles, learning how his Freeze and String-String abilities worked.
• Two cultivators, Xiao Zining and Zheng Hao, landed nearby; Zheng Hao revealed he was trying to kill Xiao Zining and threatened Ling Yi as a witness.
• Ling Yi silently severed Zheng Hao’s head with his String-String ability, killing him before he could react.
• Xiao Zining called after Ling Yi and asked him for help, revealing a severe wound in her chest; Ling Yi hesitated over whether to save her.

Ling Yi spent Xiao Zining’s reward to accelerate his farming space and unlocked a remote map with one-click pest removal. He tested its limits and set out to explore the Southern District, where Zheng Zhe farmed, while planning to uncover more of the map.

• Ling Yi spent five hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones to raise his farming space’s time multiplier to seven and used his daily lottery draw, unlocking a remote function.
• Ling Yi explored a three-dimensional map of the areas he had visited, watched Xiang Hao and Ye Tian from afar, and discovered he could remotely follow people but could not see inside buildings or hear them.
• Ling Yi tested remote one-click pest removal on his own and Niu Er’s fields, confirming that it worked on one spirit field at a time but not outside fields.
• Ling Yi headed toward the Southern District to investigate Zheng Zhe’s area and hoped to uncover more of the map.
• Ling Yi told Niu Er that his field had no pests to remove, and Niu Er warned him about wild beasts while Ling Yi said he had set traps around his field.

Ling Yi explored the Ethereal Sword School, settled the original owner's grudge, and strengthened his cultivation with new Devil Fruits. He went with Niu Er to a gathering called by Deacon Xiang and spotted Xiao Zining in the crowded courtyard.

• Ling Yi learned that the Southern District deacon had killed Zheng Zhe, which eased the original owner's lingering obsession.
• Ling Yi spent weeks exploring the school's outskirts, then harvested a second batch of Devil Fruits and advanced to Qi Refining second layer while improving his abilities and spiritual roots.
• Ling Yi found that the next Devil Fruits were random varieties and would take forty days to ripen even with sevenfold time acceleration.
• Niu Er came to fetch Ling Yi for a gathering called by Deacon Xiang and was shocked when he could not move him.
• Ling Yi and Niu Er reached the deacon's courtyard, where Ling Yi spotted Xiao Zining among the crowd and wondered whether she had come for him.

Xiao Zining recognized Ling Yi as the person who had saved her and recruited him to help save someone in a month, paying him ten million spirit stones in advance. The payment accelerated his Farmland Space to 107 times faster time, triggering a system upgrade that gave him a Dao Comprehension Tree seed.

• Xiao Zining exposed Ye Tian for concealing his cultivation and ordered Elder Qin to take him to her master for investigation as a suspected Demonic Sect spy.
• Xiao Zining returned to Ling Yi’s cabin, identified him through the Seven Stars Art, and asked him to accompany her to save someone in a month.
• Ling Yi bargained for ten million spirit stones in advance, and Xiao Zining agreed to pay him the next day.
• Xiao Zining delivered the ten million spirit stones, which Ling Yi used to raise his Farmland Space’s time flow to 107 times faster.
• The system upgraded to version 2.0, expanded the farmland, increased monthly lottery draws, and awarded Ling Yi a Dao Comprehension Tree seed.
• Ling Yi planted the seed, saw it grow into a tree, and examined one of its fragrant leaves.

Ling Yi discovered that his Devil Fruit powers had raised his body-refining realm and tested a slate of new abilities before a Dao Comprehension Fruit dramatically sharpened his mind. After realizing he had likely been watched by the sect for some time, he trapped a young genius who demanded to know his relationship with Xiao Zining inside a transparent barrier.

• Ling Yi found that his Devil Fruit powers had advanced his body refining to the Early Golden Core Realm and examined his newly acquired fruit abilities.
• Ling Yi spent three days practicing his abilities, then ate a Dao Comprehension Fruit and devised ways to combine his powers, including a clone technique.
• The fruit's effects helped Ling Yi infer that the sect had been monitoring him and that the powerful and weak presences near Xiao Zining might have been the sect master and Ye Tian.
• A Late Foundation Establishment genius entered Ling Yi's room and demanded to know his relationship with Xiao Zining.
• Ling Yi used the Shield-Shield ability to seal the genius inside a transparent glass box.

Ling Yi trapped Big Smarty underground, used his remaining draw to obtain a Senzu Bean Seed, and decided he would fight rather than keep lying low. Xiao Zining challenged him for two million spirit stones, and their duel began with her launching a lightning-charged sword at him.

• Ling Yi sealed Big Smarty inside a Shield-Shield Barrier and sent him underground after refusing to release him.
• Ling Yi drew a Senzu Bean Seed, planted it in his Farming Space, and watched it rapidly grow across the farmland.
• Xiao Zining arrived, learned that Yun Qingting had visited, and was astonished to discover Ling Yi had reached great perfection in the Seven Stars Art.
• Xiao Zining challenged Ling Yi to a fight, and they agreed that she would give him two million spirit stones if he won.
• Xiao Zining launched her Instant Thunder Sword at Ling Yi, who calmly raised a finger toward the incoming blade.