Recaps

Ling Yi defeated the three Quantum Universe envoys at the underground base, while Lan Rui objected to his prolonged torment of Lidun. After destroying the base, the group discussed how to reach Centaurus and planned to use Ling Yi’s spatial ability to accelerate a spaceship.

• Ling Yi and his companions reached the base’s central plaza and found Lidun and two other light-type envoys in the final room.
• Lidun attacked with Holy Light Sword, but Ling Yi countered his skills, killed the two subordinates, and pursued Lidun until he killed him.
• Lan Rui criticized Ling Yi for bullying Lidun, and Ling Yi accepted her rebuke without arguing.
• Ling Yi destroyed the ranch with an earth-type skill, then asked Aizen how they could travel to Centaurus.
• Lan Rui proposed using Ling Yi’s spatial jumps to accelerate a spaceship, and the group discussed the supplies, travel time, and limits of portal and wormhole travel.

Ling Yi, Lan Rui, and Zhao Yanran stole a spaceship and set off to stop the Quantum Universe invasion. Ling Yi trapped the Quantum Universe in endlessly nested virtual worlds and accelerated the ship beyond light speed toward Centaurus.

• Lan Rui explained that she had reconfigured her ability to telekinesis and that reincarnation made it grow stronger, after she had skipped payment to the God Race.
• Ling Yi, Lan Rui, and Zhao Yanran stole a spaceship from Asa Air Base and departed despite Zhao Hai's protests.
• Ling Yi told Lan Rui that he had overlaid the virtual world with infinitely nested universes, trapping its inhabitants while keeping them alive, and gave her the choice to destroy the R35 key.
• Lan Rui withdrew to consider the key, while Ling Yi told Zhao Yanran that her decision no longer mattered to him.
• Ling Yi used his spatial ability to accelerate the ship repeatedly beyond light speed, and the crew headed for Centaurus.

Ling Yi destroyed Gray Matter Planet to eliminate the Quantum invaders, then left for a new world. He arrived in a shabby rental room in an old-fashioned city, where a phone call began with a familiar exchange.

• Ling Yi sent Zhao Yanran, Lan Rui, and Aizen away aboard the spaceship, then told them he would destroy Gray Matter Planet because it was overrun by ability users.
• Ling Yi caused the ground beneath a city of little gray men to collapse and fought off the Quantum invaders as he made his way toward the planet's core.
• Ling Yi detonated Gray Matter Planet and left the world just before it exploded, appearing briefly beside Yin Wanqing in the Hunter World.
• Yin Wanqing and Ye Tian discussed losing the coordinates to a world based on Journey to the West and their plans to gather data in other worlds.
• Ling Yi arrived in a new world, found money hidden in his rental room, and answered a phone call that opened with "My strength uproots mountains, my spirit towers over the world!"

Ling Yi used his black technology modification aura to equip himself and Ling Ling Chat before bringing him back to the Southern District for an assignment. On the train, they met Aimee Chan and Golden Gun and amazed them with modified food and drink; the story left them testing the unusual items.

• Ling Yi modified a roll of banknotes, two suits, and various everyday items, discovering that each gained a different black technology effect.
• At Ling Ling Chat's pork stall, Ling Yi reunited with him using their old agent call-and-response and invited him to get cleaned up and return to duty.
• Ling Yi and Ling Ling Chat bought a piglet and other gifts, dressed in modified suits, and boarded a train to the Southern District.
• On the train, Ling Yi recognized Aimee Chan and Golden Gun, who had lost their wallet and were hungry, and invited them to share food.
• Ling Yi produced inexhaustible instant noodles, red wine, and cups that would not spill, leaving Aimee Chan and Ling Ling Chat testing the strange effects.

Ling Yi and Ling Ling Chat reached the Southern District, where Ling Yi used enchanted chewing gum to make the commander fall in love with a modified piglet before they left for Hong Kong. There they met Li Heung-kam, who planned to take them to a gathering, while Ling Yi noticed something unusual in her temporary lodging and she asked what weapons they carried.

• Ling Yi and Ling Ling Chat met Dujuan and the Southern District commander, who assigned them a mission in Hong Kong and gave them money.
• Ling Yi gave the commander a piglet and caused him to eat Mutual Love Chewing Gum, whose other piece he had fed to the piglet.
• After leaving the office, Ling Yi told Ling Ling Chat about the gum, and they laughed together.
• Three days later, Ling Yi and Ling Ling Chat met their contact, Li Heung-kam, in a Hong Kong park and agreed to work with her.
• Li Heung-kam took them to her temporary rental, where Ling Yi studied a painting and gave Ling Ling Chat instant noodles.
• Li Heung-kam asked what weapons the two agents used, fixing them with a dangerous look.

Ling Yi showed Li Heung-kam and Ling Ling Chat several bizarre modified items, including a gun that could not hurt anyone, and Li Heung-kam secretly kept it. The next day, a supposed gathering turned into an ambush at the mall, where a bespectacled man and armed attackers threatened Ling Yi.

• Ling Yi demonstrated the Gun of Kindness and Sure-Hit Fruit Knives, and Ling Ling Chat pocketed several knives.
• Ling Ling Chat ate Bread That Does Not Lie and confessed his desire to sleep with Li Heung-kam; she also confiscated Ling Yi's gloves after seeing them strip a cat of its fur.
• Li Heung-kam secretly tested the Gun of Kindness in her room, confirmed it could not injure anyone, and hid it from the Golden Gunman.
• The next day, Li Heung-kam took Ling Yi and Ling Ling Chat to a mall, where Ling Yi spotted a father and son from the original plot.
• A bespectacled man joined the group, then two armed men charged in; the man aimed a pistol at Ling Yi, who produced a matching modified pistol and fired.

Ling Yi gathered Aimee Chan, Golden Gun, and Li Heung-kam into a team to recover the dinosaur skull and stop Golden Gunman, then led them to attack his Southern District base. The group defeated Golden Gunman, while Li Heung-kam’s feelings for Ling Yi remained unresolved.

• Ling Yi killed three robbers, then persuaded Aimee Chan and Li Heung-kam to cooperate against Golden Gunman and revealed that Li Heung-kam had been sent to kill them.
• Li Heung-kam disclosed Golden Gunman’s plan, the skull’s location, and the buyer’s identity, and Ling Yi told everyone about the commander’s bond with a little piglet.
• Li Heung-kam confronted Ling Yi in his room and objected to his insistence that she and Ling Ling Chat were suited to each other.
• The next morning, Ling Ling Chat, Golden Gun, Aimee Chan, and Li Heung-kam attacked Golden Gunman’s Southern District base while Ling Yi approached him separately.
• Golden Gunman shot a decoy of Ling Yi, prompting Li Heung-kam to fire at him; Ling Ling Chat and Aimee Chan joined the fight, and Ling Ling Chat cleaved Golden Gunman in half with his Pig-Slaughtering Saber Technique.

Ling Yi, posing as a hooded City Light, hijacked a livestream to threaten the lawyer Ren Chuan and drew the police into a search. He contacted Officer Mi Nan, promised to help rescue Ren Chuan before the vote reached its limit, and left her waiting for further news.

• Ling Yi watched Qi Yuan leave the courthouse after Ren Chuan defended the elderly woman’s family, then decided to challenge the warped vigilante calling himself City Light.
• Ling Yi launched a livestream showing Ren Chuan tied to a bomb and said it would explode if viewers cast more than a hundred thousand votes by eight that evening.
• Director Liu ordered Xinhai City police to search for Ren Chuan, while Mi Nan noticed clues suggesting he was being held in a hotel.
• Ling Yi diverted Mi Nan’s phone to footage of the real City Light and contacted her using a disguised voice.
• Ling Yi told Mi Nan he would reveal Ren Chuan’s location near the vote limit and cut off City Light’s internet, but Mi Nan warned she would arrest him if she discovered his identity.

Ling Yi stopped the livestream vote one short of triggering the bomb and sent the police Ren Chuan’s location, allowing officers to rescue him. Afterward, Mi Nan watched Jiang Ya discover nothing about Ling Yi’s interference, then discussed Ling Yi’s motives with Director Liu.

• Mi Nan passed Ling Yi’s location pin to Director Liu, while Ling Yi locked the vote count at 99,999 and prevented further votes.
• Ren Chuan apologized to Qi Yuan, his family, and his teachers, and viewers urged one another not to cast the final vote.
• Police officers broke into the room and rescued Ren Chuan, while the officer in charge asked viewers to trust the livestream audience’s decision.
• Ling Yi switched Mi Nan’s screen to City Light, where Jiang Ya panicked over Ren Chuan’s survival and failed to uncover Ling Yi’s tampering.
• Director Liu told Mi Nan that the police would use Ling Yi’s help to catch City Light and asked for her assessment of Ling Yi.
• Mi Nan told Director Liu that Ling Yi might be using City Light to show people what the true light of the city was.

After Ren Chuan publicly apologized and donated his earnings, Mi Nan recognized the positive impact Ling Yi had created, unaware he lived directly below her. Meanwhile, Jiang Ya selected a new City Light mission targeting Zheng Yi and began tracking her before launching another livestream.

• Ling Yi showed Mi Nan how Ren Chuan apologized to Qi Yuan, donated his earnings from unscrupulous lawsuits, and inspired young lawyers to take an oath.
• Mi Nan returned home and wished Ling Yi good night, not knowing he lived one floor below her in the same apartment building.
• Jiang Ya reviewed the City Light Judgment System and selected a mission about Zheng Yi, who had caused a deadly apartment fire and framed her ex-boyfriend Tian Qiang.
• Jiang Ya used the system to locate Zheng Yi, then began a new City Light livestream that drew widespread attention.

Ling Yi helped the police stop City Light’s livestream from killing Zheng Yi and supplied evidence linking her to the May 27 arson case, leading to her arrest. The public praised the Xinhai City police, while Mi Nan pressed Ling Yi to meet her and left angry when he refused.

• Jiang Ya livestreamed Zheng Yi bound to a gasoline-soaked sofa and threatened to ignite it when viewers’ votes reached a hundred thousand.
• Ling Yi told Director Liu he had recovered surveillance footage implicating Zheng Yi and assured him the igniter’s signal had been blocked.
• When the vote count reached a hundred thousand, police entered the room, rescued Zheng Yi, and arrested her after citing the recovered video.
• Viewers condemned Zheng Yi’s abuse of the officers, and the Xinhai City police later released footage that drew praise and thanks from families of the victims.
• Mi Nan thanked Ling Yi for his support but became angry when he again refused to meet her.

Ling Yi revealed himself to Mi Nan, and the two began living together as their relationship grew closer. A week later, Jiang Ya targeted mathematics teacher Wei Mingjun in a livestream, and Ling Yi watched as Jiang Ya prepared to attack him.

• Ling Yi visited Mi Nan, introduced himself, and went with her to his home, where she met his artificial-intelligence robot.
• Ling Yi explained that the robot was an intelligent life-form, and he and Mi Nan spent the evening eating and talking before he took her home.
• Mi Nan and Ling Yi grew closer over the following days, while the police brought criminal psychology expert Fang Mu in to investigate City Light.
• Mi Nan moved into Ling Yi's home, but their first day living together was interrupted when Jiang Ya began judging Wei Mingjun on a livestream.
• Wei Mingjun pleaded his case, and viewers argued over whether he deserved punishment as Jiang Ya aimed a fountain pen at his wrist.

Ling Yi used the Quantum Net to teleport the mortally wounded Wei Mingjun to a hospital, thwarting Jiang Ya’s planned judgment and revealing a power that left Jiang Ya alarmed. As Ling Yi accompanied Mi Nan to the police station, investigators identified Jiang Ya as City Light and began presenting evidence linking him to earlier cases.

• Ling Yi teleported Wei Mingjun to Xinhai City Second Central Hospital, while Mi Nan avoided explaining the Quantum Net to Director Liu.
• Jiang Ya received 20 points for the failed judgment, drew invisibility equipment, and chose to target cultural bureau officials Wu Zhanrong and Liu Liwei.
• The chapter recounted how Wu Zhanrong and Liu Liwei stole Cheng Huifang’s valuable antiques, returned replicas after she won her lawsuit, and left her unable to prove the switch years later.
• Ling Yi went with Mi Nan to the police station and waited in the reception room while she joined the investigators.
• Fang Mu identified Jiang Ya as City Light and presented evidence that Jiang Ya had visited the scenes and nearby locations in the Ren Chuan and Zheng Yi cases.

Ling Yi helped the police rescue two victims and trace Jiang Ya, but Jiang Ya escaped and decided to escalate his crimes. The next morning, he appeared on livestream and threatened the city with a deadly game.

• Ling Yi warned Mi Nan that City Light was attacking the Qilin Collection Pavilion, and the police found Wu Zhanrong and Liu Liwei trapped inside plaster statues.
• Ling Yi spotted a seventh shadow in surveillance footage, leading the police to Jiang Ya’s home, but Jiang Ya had already fled and left his wife in a vegetative state.
• Jiang Ya resolved to complete more missions and grow stronger after his identity was exposed.
• Ling Yi promised Mi Nan that he would personally capture City Light the next time he appeared.
• Jiang Ya revealed his face on a livestream and challenged the police to choose between saving the city’s residents and protecting the wicked.

Ling Yi thwarted Jiang Ya’s bomb threat by turning the livestream challenge into a contest to bring the accused to justice, then captured Jiang Ya and took his system. After the crisis, Mi Nan accepted the City Light Judgment System, and Ling Yi’s clone went with her to register their marriage as Ling Yi departed.

• Ling Yi told Director Liu to deploy bomb-disposal teams after Jiang Ya announced he had planted thirty-six bombs and demanded that thirty-six people be killed within twelve hours.
• Ling Yi challenged Jiang Ya to spare the bombs if authorities proved the listed people’s crimes, and Mi Nan arrested all thirty-six while Director Liu publicized the results.
• Ling Yi went to confront Jiang Ya, used a quantum net to remove his armor, and accepted Jiang Ya’s system when it unbound itself and became a bracelet.
• Jiang Ya tried to detonate every bomb, but Ling Yi made the remote disappear and took him away; three days later, the Jiang Ya incident was over.
• Mi Nan chose to become the real City Light, and Ling Yi’s clone accompanied her to the Civil Affairs Bureau to register their marriage as Ling Yi vanished.

Ling Yi used his storytelling to earn money in Xiangyang City, then spent most of it eating and improving his attributes through his passive glutton aura. After Guo Fu ordered Wu Dunru and Wu Xiuwen to teach him a lesson the next day, Xiaolongnü remained trapped in the Ancient Tomb Sect and went to seek the Nine Yin Manual.

• Ling Yi attracted a crowd in Xiangyang City by telling the opening of Zhu Xian and collected copper coins from his listeners.
• Guo Fu offered Ling Yi ten taels a day to tell stories at her home, but he refused and publicly challenged her arrogance.
• Ling Yi ate through the Five Blessings Inn's ingredients, raising several attributes before spending the night there.
• Guo Fu ordered Wu Dunru and Wu Xiuwen to teach Ling Yi a lesson the next day without seriously hurting him.
• Xiaolongnü complained about being trapped in the Ancient Tomb Sect, then remembered the Nine Yin Manual and ran deeper into the tomb.

Ling Yi earned money telling stories about Zhu Xian and defeated Da Wu and Xiao Wu when they came to pick a fight. He then bought a former brothel with help from its owner and the local vendors, planning to turn it into a Storytelling House.

• Ling Yi attracted a crowd with his Zhu Xian story, earned more tips, and suggested vendors sell tea and snacks to listeners.
• Da Wu and Xiao Wu tried to teach Ling Yi a lesson, but he repeatedly tripped them and sent them away; Guo Fu left without confronting him.
• Ling Yi posted a sign barring Guo Fu and rats from listening, while vendors asked him about establishing a permanent place for the business.
• A wealthy listener offered Ling Yi a three-story former brothel for two thousand taels, payable in installments, and Ling Yi agreed to buy it.
• The vendors helped clean the premises, Boss Wang delivered the property deed, and Ling Yi named the establishment the Storytelling House.

Huang Rong investigated Ling Yi after Guo Fu’s dispute with him, but his unusual movements and evasive answers only deepened her curiosity. She left intending for Guo Jing to test Ling Yi and uncover his martial lineage.

• Guo Fu rebuked Da Wu and Xiao Wu for losing to Ling Yi and rejected their claim that he was a Mongolian spy.
• Huang Rong heard what happened, questioned Da Wu and Xiao Wu about the fight, and decided to meet Ling Yi with Guo Fu.
• Huang Rong found Ling Yi at his Storytelling House, where she and Guo Fu listened to his story for the afternoon.
• Huang Rong challenged Ling Yi after he crushed the sign barring Guo Fu, but he evaded her attacks and claimed his movements were instinctive.
• Huang Rong apologized for Guo Fu and left after Ling Yi brushed off her questions about his abilities and teacher.
• Huang Rong told Guo Jing about Ling Yi’s strange martial arts and asked him to test the boy the next day.

Ling Yi stopped a boy from stealing silver at his Storytelling House, offered him work, and told a story that left Guo Fu distraught over Green Robe’s apparent death. Guo Jing and Huang Rong arrived, and Guo Jing challenged Ling Yi to a public martial arts spar, which Ling Yi accepted.

• Guo Fu caught a ragged boy stealing silver from the Storytelling House and beat him before Ling Yi stopped her.
• Ling Yi finished the story of Green Robe sacrificing herself, and Guo Fu attacked him until he assured her that Zhang Xiaofan would later save her.
• Ling Yi offered the boy food, lodging, and wages in exchange for work, then asked him to find other literate beggars.
• Huang Rong and Guo Jing arrived, and Ling Yi discussed poverty with them before Guo Jing asked to test his martial arts.
• Ling Yi accepted Guo Jing’s challenge on the storytelling stage and said Guo Jing might lose.

Ling Yi fought Guo Jing to a draw, then began training Yang Guo and new storytellers at the Storytelling House while his retelling of Zhu Xian spread beyond Xiangyang. After hearing about Ling Yi and his martial art, Little Steamed Bun left the ancient tomb and set out for Xiangyang City to find him.

• Ling Yi countered Guo Jing's Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms, and the two stopped fighting after Guo Jing called the result a loss and Ling Yi called it a draw.
• Ling Yi refused to teach Guo Fu his self-created martial art until she learned to control her temper.
• Yang Guo returned to the Storytelling House with six beggars, and Ling Yi began training them to tell stories while teaching Yang Guo martial arts.
• Over the next two months, Ling Yi finished Zhu Xian with a happy ending, his apprentices began performing, and the story spread to other regions.
• Little Steamed Bun heard a storyteller and a martial artist describe Ling Yi's Storytelling House and Tai Chi Mysterious Purity Dao, then decided to go to Xiangyang City.
• Little Steamed Bun left the Ancient Tomb Sect after a month of its monotonous life and looked forward to meeting Ling Yi.

Xiao Linglong, a modern woman who had transmigrated into Little Steamed Bun, met fellow native Ling Yi at the Storytelling House and decided to stay with him. Ling Yi sent Yang Guo west of Xiangyang to hunt Pusiqu snakes, while Xiao Linglong settled in to share a wolf meat hot pot with Ling Yi and the others.

• Little Steamed Bun beat up bandits, handed Li Mochou the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra, and invited her to meet Ling Yi at the Storytelling House.
• Ling Yi sent Yang Guo west of Xiangyang to collect the gallbladders of dangerous Pusiqu snakes.
• Xiao Linglong arrived with Guo Jing's family and told Ling Yi she had transmigrated from the modern world after a car accident.
• Xiao Linglong explained that her disciple-making system had stalled at the Ancient Tomb Sect, and Ling Yi suggested she open a school and recruit students.
• Xiao Linglong decided to stay at the Storytelling House, and she and Ling Yi prepared wolf meat hot pot while Guo Fu watched them uneasily.

Ling Yi sent Xiao Linglong away with his Great Song Strategy Notes, and she drove reforms that pushed the Mongolian army north. After Yang Guo returned, Ling Yi set him on the path to lead the Beggar Sect, while the Transmigration Prediction Radar approached completion of its first phase.

• Ling Yi threw Xiao Linglong out of the library and gave her the Great Song Strategy Notes, telling her to improve the Song dynasty; she left and took Guo Fu with her.
• Xiao Linglong drove the Mongolian army north, then used force and threats at court to make the emperor introduce sweeping reforms.
• Yang Guo returned with the Divine Condor and snake gallbladders, and Ling Yi encouraged him to enter the martial world and formally become his disciple.
• Ling Yi backed Yang Guo as the next Beggar Sect leader, and Yang Guo eventually took control of the sect despite opposition.
• Yin Wanqing told Ling Yi that only one link remained before the Transmigration Prediction Radar’s first phase was complete, but she would not reveal what it was.

Ling Yi witnessed Yin Youyou’s death in a fight between superhumans, then erased the rope he had planned to use to end his life. The next day, two strangers took him to Illusion City, where the woman welcomed him after separating him from four other captives.

• A superhuman’s thrown utility pole killed Yin Youyou, and Guan Tai raged at the fighters as Ling Yi called the police.
• Ling Yi recalled the rules governing superhumans and used his Passive Erasure Halo to erase the rope hanging from his ceiling.
• Guan Tai told Ling Yi he was leaving school and blamed superhumans for Yin Youyou’s death.
• A buzz-cut man and a woman took Ling Yi to Illusion City with four hooded captives, whom the woman assigned to a second round.
• The woman led Ling Yi into an underground hall and welcomed him to Illusion City.

Ling Yi entered the Slaughter Game, where ordinary people were forced to survive among ability users, and secretly used his power to kill Ma Qing and take her ability crystal. He left the scene with her chains as his new ability, while viewers began betting on him.

• Lin Tong explained the Slaughter Game and told Ling Yi that ordinary participants had to survive among ability users, then gave him her name and invited him to find her if he escaped.
• Ling Yi chose a dagger, arrived at the game site, and walked into the woods while Ma Qing followed him and viewers watched the broadcast.
• Ma Qing revealed herself as an ability user and struck Ling Yi through the chest with her chains, but Ling Yi eliminated her consciousness and stabbed her with the dagger.
• Ling Yi took Ma Qing's ability crystal, gained control of her chains, and buried her body while cleaning up the blood.
• Viewers were shocked by Ling Yi's reversal, and bets on him increased as his odds fell.

Ling Yi spared ordinary people while presenting himself as a hero who opposed the Slaughter Game, even as its masterminds ordered his death. After staging his defeat to deceive three superhumans, he defeated them and demanded a unanimous vote to leave the game, warning Human Torch that anyone who abstained would die.

• An exit vote failed when someone voted against it, while Illusion City's mastermind ordered his pawns to keep Ling Yi in the game and kill him.
• Ling Yi deflected five ordinary people's gunfire, spared them, and raised his hand to call for an end to the killing.
• Lin Tong and the buzz-cut man watched Ling Yi's broadcast, and the buzz-cut man said he would wait for Ling Yi at the exit or enter the game himself if Ling Yi failed.
• Ling Yi spared attackers as he crossed the island, and more than twenty people began following him for protection.
• Three superhumans confronted Ling Yi by a stream, and he accused the game’s masterminds of controlling the winners and losers before pretending their attacks had defeated him.
• Ling Yi ambushed the three superhumans, killed the fat man, incapacitated the woman and Human Torch, then demanded a unanimous vote to leave the game.