Recaps

Zhao Feng and Ling Yi responded to the Gu Emperor Sect’s activation of an extinction secret realm as Dafeng City and the rest of the Ancient Country began a coordinated crackdown and prepared for invasion. Ling Yi advanced to the Void God Realm, grasped the meaning of the Spirit Martial Heaven and Earth Art, and heard the alarm announcing that the demonic beasts had begun attacking.

• Zhao Feng learned that the secret realm had risen from sixth Pin to seventh Pin and become an extinction secret realm, then ordered his wife to begin the citywide response.
• Dafeng City activated its defensive formation as alarms exposed Gu Emperor Sect followers, while Ling Yi recognized the special frequency that paralyzed Gu insects.
• Ling Yi sent over ten thousand Wanfu Company members to the city gates, and Yun Feihong went to help the Guard Army defend the city.
• Ling Yi’s system showed that he had reached the Golden Core Realm and Void God Realm, and he understood how the Spirit Martial Heaven and Earth Art united internal and external cultivation.
• Wang Daquan called Ling Yi to join the defense, and a second alarm signaled that demonic beasts had emerged and the invasion had begun.

Zhao Feng defended Dafeng City from an endless Demonic Beast invasion, while Ling Yi and his controlled squad joined the city’s defenders. The chapter left Gu Xue preparing to open the east gate’s formation and lead a desperate close-combat assault.

• Zhao Feng ordered the Guard Army to withdraw behind Dafeng City’s walls and used Spiritual Power shells to bombard the Demonic Beasts through the night.
• After the barrage ended, Zhao Feng coordinated mages, immortal cultivators, and other troops as they attacked the approaching beasts.
• Ling Yi brought his hundred controlled test subjects to the defenses, where Gu Xue questioned their identity and one of them claimed they were from the Wanfu Company.
• Gu Xue led thousands of unofficial cultivators to the east gate after Demonic Beasts appeared there, assigning ranged fighters to the walls and melee fighters to the front.
• Gu Xue rallied the defenders to fight for their home, and Ling Yi quietly moved his squad to the front as she prepared to open the formation.

Ling Yi’s Death God Squad defended Dafeng City against the Demonic Beast tide, then cut through the horde and reached the red secret realm. As the city’s leaders questioned the squad’s origins, Ling Yi led his hundred men inside to pursue the invasion’s source and possibly rescue Yun Qingyun.

• Gu Xue opened a gap in the east gate’s defensive formation, and Ling Yi’s Death God Squad held the line while Gu Xue flew to reinforce the west gate.
• As the Demonic Beasts grew stronger and Dafeng City suffered casualties, Ling Yi ordered his men to form groups of five and use their Spiritual Sense formations to capture and seal the beasts’ souls.
• The Death God Squad advanced from the east gate to the south gate, cut off the beast tide, and cleared a path toward the secret realm as Zhao Feng watched and Yun Feihong followed them.
• Gu Xue and Zhao Feng discussed the Death God Squad’s unusual abilities and suspected that Ling Yi might have taught them the Immortal Martial Art.
• Ling Yi led the hundred-man force into the red secret realm.

Ling Yi questioned the Beast Spirit and used Narration Bullet Comments to uncover how the Spirit Martial Realm fell and how its Heavenly Dao planned to be reborn through this world. As Yun Qingyun asked about the Upper Realm, the Beast Spirit realized something was wrong and vanished.

• Ling Yi flew to the Beast Spirit, where Yun Qingyun, Zhao Mubai, and five thousand surviving Guards had taken refuge, and assured them Dafeng City was safe.
• Ling Yi asked the Beast Spirit about the Spirit Martial Realm’s past, and Narration Bullet Comments revealed that the Upper Realm Heavenly Dao had driven the Spirit Martial Heavenly Dao to flee.
• Ling Yi learned that Spirit Martial Extinction shattered the realm into fragments that became secret realms, and that their gradual merging would let the Spirit Martial Heavenly Dao be reborn through this world.
• Ling Yi discovered that the Spirit Martial Heavenly Dao had created cheats and cheat users to speed up the secret realms’ depletion, and that the Upper Realm would send its powerhouses if it found the Heavenly Dao.
• Ling Yi asked whether the Heavenly Dao could fight directly and how powerful the Upper Realm’s forces were, while Yun Qingyun questioned him about the Upper Realm.
• The Beast Spirit trembled, realized something was wrong with Ling Yi, and turned intangible before vanishing.

Ling Yi killed Yun Qingyun, then slaughtered the Demonic Beasts in the secret realm to absorb their souls, Spiritual Power, and Qi and Blood. As he cultivated above the battlefield, the Heavenly Dao Sect’s sect master and other higher-ups arrived and learned that Ling Yi had mastered the Spirit Martial Heaven and Earth Art.

• Ling Yi seized Yun Qingyun’s Primordial Spirit with three Soul Seals and sent Zhao Mubai out of the way as he prepared to fight the Demonic Beasts.
• Ling Yi used Soul Annihilation Seals to kill more than a hundred thousand Demonic Beasts, then devoured the captured souls to increase his Spiritual Sense.
• Ling Yi continued slaughtering the beasts with the Bloodthirst Seal and other techniques, while the Soul Control Seal suppressed Yun Feihong’s hatred toward him.
• After four hours, Ling Yi had killed every Demonic Beast in the secret realm, and its exit turned blue so the survivors could leave.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect’s sect master and higher-ups arrived, and Yun Feihong claimed Yun Qingyun had died to Demonic Beasts before pointing out Ling Yi.
• The sect master recognized Ling Yi’s use of the Spirit Martial Heaven and Earth Art and watched him cultivate above the shriveled Demonic Beast corpses.

Ling Yi used the Void Escape Technique to leave the secret realm, then interrogated the Heavenly Dao Sect about cheat users and secret realms. He met Zhao Wenwen at the school and called out to the Spirit Martial Realm Heavenly Dao, whose narration appeared beside her.

• Ling Yi used the Void Escape Technique to escape the secret realm and return to Blue Star, while the Heavenly Dao Sect master and others left behind him.
• Zhao Feng ordered the Guard Army to treat the wounded and explore the secret realm as soldiers collected demonic beast corpses outside Dafeng City.
• Ling Yi briefly appeared before Wang Daquan, then went north of Dafeng City and used a Spirit Sealing Seal to immobilize the Heavenly Dao Sect while questioning them about cheat users and secret realms.
• Ling Yi took Zhao Wenwen into the Void Space and brought her to the school's sports field to test his cheat.
• Ling Yi called out to the Spirit Martial Realm Heavenly Dao, and its narration bullet comments appeared beside Zhao Wenwen.

Ling Yi copied the Spirit Martial and Upper Realm rules bodies, unsealed his memories, and reset both worlds’ Heavenly Daos before moving the world into the Ling Realm and beginning another transmigration. In the Ling Realm, Yin Wanqing confronted Uncle about the novel’s weak storyline and learned that his company troubles had left him worn down, though he planned to resign and recover.

• Ling Yi warned the Spirit Martial Heavenly Dao that the Upper Realm would eventually discover it, then spent months clearing Blue Star’s Demonic Beast secret realms and reached the True God Realm.
• The Spirit Martial Heavenly Dao took control of Zhao Wenwen and asked Ling Yi to copy its rules body, which he did along with the Upper Realm Heavenly Dao’s rules body.
• Ling Yi’s memories were unsealed, and he learned that both Heavenly Daos devoured powerful cultivators to advance and had suppressed the True God Realm.
• Ling Yi erased both Heavenly Daos’ consciousnesses, made the Spirit Martial Heavenly Dao Blue Star’s impartial Heavenly Dao, and moved the world into the Ling Realm before starting a new transmigration.
• Yin Wanqing criticized Uncle for lacking a clear main storyline, and Uncle explained that his company was failing and that he planned to resign and take time to recover.

Ling Yi transmigrated into the body of a condemned prisoner who had agreed to die in Prince Liu Zheng’s place to save his brother, Ling Feng. After his Karmic Luck Simulation System activated, Liu Zheng gave him a martial arts manual, leaving Ling Yi with a slim chance to survive.

• Ling Yi regained memories of his new life and learned that he had agreed to serve as a death-row stand-in after Zheng Qi promised to heal Ling Feng and leave him money.
• Ling Yi entered the cell and discovered that the condemned prisoner he was replacing, Prince Liu Zheng, looked almost exactly like him.
• The Karmic Luck Simulation System activated and showed Ling Yi that Liu Zheng had 120,000 Karmic Luck while Ling Yi had only three points.
• Ling Yi asked Liu Zheng for a martial arts manual, and Liu Zheng tested him with pressure before giving him a silk manual titled Overbearing Fist.
• Zheng Qi locked Ling Yi in the cell and warned him not to forget his brother, while Ling Yi asked the system to activate its simulation function.

Ling Yi used two simulations to learn the Overbearing Fist and rapidly improve his cultivation, but the first simulation revealed that masked attackers would kill him in ten days. After reaching Minor Accomplishment in the Skin Refining Realm in reality, he prepared for another simulation just as jailers brought a bloodied prisoner into the cell.

• Ling Yi discovered that the Overbearing Fist required matching its movements with a breathing technique, then bargained with Zheng Qi for three Qi and Blood Pills each day in exchange for its illustrations.
• In the first simulation, Ling Yi reached Great Accomplishment in the Skin Refining Realm before masked attackers killed him, mistaking him for the third prince.
• Ling Yi chose one-tenth of his simulated cultivation and reached the entry stage of the Skin Refining Realm, then realized the attackers posed a threat ten days away.
• In a second simulation, Ling Yi reached Perfection in the Skin Refining Realm and chose cultivation again, advancing to Minor Accomplishment in reality.
• Jailers arrived with a handsome young prisoner whose bloodied gown and shoulder hooks shocked Ling Yi.

Ling Yi discovered that Pang Qi’s negative Karmic Luck earned him points and used a simulation to cultivate the Overbearing Fist, trade its diagrams for pills, and advance to the Bone Tempering Realm. He chose cultivation as his reward, became a Second Pin Martial Practitioner, and found that future simulations cost more but could skip their comments.

• Ling Yi saw that Pang Qi had committed dozens of rapes and was responsible for twelve deaths, while Pang Qi’s Karmic Luck remained fixed at -100.
• Pang Qi was locked in the cell next to Ling Yi’s, and Ling Yi began gaining one Karmic Luck point per minute from him.
• Ling Yi simulated cultivating the Overbearing Fist, exchanged its diagrams with Zheng Qi for Qi and Blood Pills, and reached Great Accomplishment in the Bone Tempering Realm.
• The men in black killed Tang Sanshan, Peng Tuohai, Pang Qi, and Ling Yi after discovering he was not the Third Prince.
• Ling Yi chose one-tenth of his simulated cultivation as his reward and advanced to Minor Accomplishment in the Bone Tempering Realm.
• Ling Yi noticed that simulations now cost 10 Karmic Luck points and included an option to skip their comments.

Ling Yi practiced the Overbearing Fist and traded its first ten illustrations to Zheng Qi for five hundred Qi and Blood Pills. Zheng Qi revealed the fist’s connection to the Imperial Dao Fist and explained the Martial Practitioner realms before leaving Ling Yi with the final two illustrations withheld.

• Ling Yi practiced the Overbearing Fist until the system recorded it at beginner proficiency.
• Tang Sanshan delivered Ling Yi’s meal, and Ling Yi asked him to summon Zheng Qi for a deal.
• Zheng Qi dismissed the jailers, knocked Pang Qi unconscious, and met Ling Yi privately.
• Ling Yi traded Zheng Qi the first ten illustrations of the Overbearing Fist for five hundred Qi and Blood Pills, keeping the last two illustrations.
• Zheng Qi explained that the Overbearing Fist belonged to the Imperial Dao Fist and outlined the nine Martial Practitioner pins, lesser masters, grandmasters, and the possibility of comprehending Fist Intent.

Ling Yi used another simulation to advance his cultivation, trade food to Pang Qi for martial arts and his fortune, and discover that the system concealed his martial presence. After dying to the black-clad assassins, he chose the memory reward, then ran a skipped simulation that offered a huge cache of pills.

• Ling Yi cultivated to third pin Organ Refining Realm, then agreed to feed Pang Qi in exchange for his techniques and entire fortune.
• Ling Yi learned Cloud-Treading Steps, Mysterious Jade Art, and Mysterious Jade Hand, but the black-clad leader killed him after their fight.
• Ling Yi inferred that his system hid his martial presence and chose to receive the simulation memories, including Pang Qi's hidden wealth and martial knowledge.
• Ling Yi began another simulation with the scrolling messages skipped and reached Bone Tempering Realm great perfection, receiving a reward option of 2,200 Qi and Blood Pills, 500 Divine Blood Pills, and 200 Divine Martial Pills.

Ling Yi unlocked a palm storage space, then used pills to cultivate rapidly in a simulation while investigating Pang Qi’s death and a mysterious golden insect. The insect was identified as a Sound-Listening Gu, and the black-clad leader revealed that the third prince had deceived them before attacking Ling Yi.

• Ling Yi spent Karmic Luck to unlock a storage space in his left palm and stored his pills inside.
• Ling Yi began another simulation and cultivated Overbearing Fist until he advanced to great accomplishment in the Bone Tempering Realm.
• Ling Yi asked Tang Sanshan to make arrangements, then continued cultivating until he reached the Fourth Pin Martial Practitioner Realm.
• Pang Qi died in prison, and a golden insect crawled from his nostril into a jailer, prompting Ling Yi to suspect Pang Qi had carried it into the prison.
• Ling Yi used Divine Blood Pills to strengthen himself before the black-clad men attacked the prison again.
• The black-clad leader identified the insect as a Sound-Listening Gu, said the third prince had deceived them, and swung his sword at Ling Yi.

Ling Yi used his simulation to learn how he could defeat the prison guards, then claimed a cultivation reward and advanced to the Fourth Pin. In a new simulation, he stayed in the prison after killing the attackers and learned that Zheng Qi might want him dead, while the Black Guard eventually arrived to escort him to the imperial capital.

• Ling Yi's simulated self killed the black-clad leader and his four subordinates, but a Fifth Pin martial practitioner stopped him from escaping and killed him with fire.
• Ling Yi concluded that the masked expert likely served Liu Zheng, claimed the cultivation reward, and reached the Fourth Pin Marrow Refining Realm with improved technique proficiency.
• Ling Yi noticed his karmic luck points rising when an unusually fortunate person entered his expanded radius, then started another simulation.
• In the new simulation, Ling Yi advanced to Great Perfection in the Fifth Pin, killed the black-clad attackers, stayed in prison, and sensed killing intent from Zheng Qi.
• Tang Sanshan told Ling Yi that he had moved Pang Qi's assets, and Ling Yi recalled the third prince's alleged crimes and Zheng Qi's plan to use him as a substitute.
• The Black Guard arrived with an imperial decree to escort Ling Yi to the imperial capital to answer before the emperor.

Ling Yi’s simulation followed his escape from prison under Guo Hong’s escort, where he cultivated, survived multiple assassination attempts, and killed a Lesser Master with Mysterious Jade Hand. He and Guo Hong were eventually surrounded by Black Guard traitors at Junhe Wharf and killed, leaving Ling Yi to choose a reward.

• Guo Hong took Ling Yi out of prison and escorted him north toward the imperial city while Ling Yi cultivated with Divine Martial Pills.
• After Ling Yi reached the Sixth Pin Qi Condensation Realm, assassins attacked, and he revealed his strength to help Guo Hong defeat them.
• A bronze-masked Lesser Master confronted them, but Ling Yi pierced his heart with Mysterious Jade Hand and escaped with Guo Hong.
• Ling Yi and Guo Hong fled south to Junhe Wharf, where Ling Yi reached Qi Condensation Realm Great Perfection and learned that Black Guard reinforcements were expected.
• Hundreds of black-clad Black Guard members surrounded them at the wharf; Guo Hong died fighting them, and Ling Yi was killed by a hidden weapon after battling three Lesser Masters.
• The simulation ended and offered Ling Yi three rewards: simulation memories, one-tenth of his cultivation, or a Yuan-Bursting Pill and Yuan Spirit Crossbow.

Ling Yi reached the sixth-pin Martial Practitioner realm and discovered his storage space could manipulate compressed air, but the system ended its beginner period and limited his daily simulations. After testing the space in prison and causing a blast that drew the jailers, he privately offered Tang Sanshan wealth and status.

• Ling Yi chose cultivation as his reward, rose to sixth pin, and reasoned that his storage space had let him kill a seventh-pin opponent by removing the True Yuan near his heart.
• Ling Yi completed two more simulations and chose cultivation rewards, but the system announced that his beginner period had ended and limited him to three daily attempts and two skips.
• Ling Yi tested his storage space by drawing in air, then released it in a blast that cratered the floor and deafened everyone on the prison's first level.
• Tang Sanshan, Peng Tuohai, Zhang Zhengshan, Feng Shangtao, and Feng Shangyun arrived to investigate, and Ling Yi told them his experiment had caused the disturbance.
• Ling Yi dismissed everyone except Tang Sanshan and offered him wealth and status, prompting the frightened jailer to kneel and refuse.

Ling Yi sent Tang Sanshan to retrieve the stash of a rapist and warned him about the danger of remaining in Sanhe County, while conspirators debated the Third Prince’s threat and the real Liu Zheng prepared for his return to the capital. After receiving the stash, Ling Yi gained pills and several manuals, including techniques that could fill gaps in his combat abilities.

• Ling Yi told Tang Sanshan where to find a hundred thousand in gold notes and offered him half; Tang Sanshan went to retrieve the stash, and Ling Yi later warned him to avoid spending the money and leave Nanlan Commandery.
• The Ten Thousand Gu Sect’s Sect Master and Bronze Mask discussed the dead Sound-Listening Gu, the Third Prince’s abilities, and the danger he posed; the Sect Master sent a replacement Gu to spy on him.
• The real Third Prince, Liu Zheng, told his masked subordinate that preparations and evidence in the capital were ready, ordered the Black Guard to protect his double, and said to bring the double to him if he escaped Nanlan Commandery.
• Tang Sanshan delivered the recovered stash to Ling Yi, keeping the promised gold notes and handing over the other contents; Ling Yi saw that Tang Sanshan’s Karmic Luck had shifted between extreme fortune and certain death.
• Ling Yi examined the stash’s pills and manuals, setting aside the pills for simulations and identifying the Cloud-Slaying Sword, Flicking Divine Ability, and incomplete Vajra Skill as useful techniques.

Zheng Qi gave Ling Yi the Third Prince’s clothes and records and revealed that Ling Feng had been moved to keep Ling Yi compliant. Ling Yi then simulated breaking out of prison, escaping south, and reaching a choice between fleeing the empire and entering the imperial capital, while deciding he would rather seize the throne himself.

• Zheng Qi told Ling Yi to imitate the Third Prince, gave him the prince’s clothes and daily records, and said Ling Feng had been placed somewhere safe.
• Ling Yi changed into the Third Prince’s clothes, accepted Zheng Qi’s warning about his brother, and watched Pang Qi get taken to the prison’s second level.
• Ling Yi spent 200 Karmic Luck Points to start a simulation and saw himself break through to the True Yuan Realm before killing the man in black who attacked him.
• Ling Yi’s simulated self broke out of prison with Pang Qi’s Cloud-Opening Sword and Ice Silkworm Soft Armor, then evaded pursuers while traveling south.
• Ling Yi’s simulated self reached the docks of Nine Bends Commandery, chose to flee south rather than enter the imperial capital, and Ling Yi decided he would instead seek the throne.

Ling Yi hid aboard Sister Yun’s flower boat, cultivated to the Eighth Pin Spirit Yuan Realm, and learned that Liu Zheng had become crown prince after the First Prince fell. When Liu Zheng attacked the boat and killed Sister Yun, Ling Yi killed him but died from a Grandmaster’s strike, leaving the simulation’s rewards unclaimed.

• Ling Yi traveled south aboard the flower boat, perfected several techniques, and learned that Liu Zheng had exposed the crown prince’s crimes but was barred from the capital as Liu Yan became crown prince.
• Sister Yun noticed Ling Yi and quietly provided him with food while he cultivated seven great intent realms and broke through to Great Perfection of the Eighth Pin Spirit Yuan Realm.
• Sister Yun invited Ling Yi to join the flower boat, where Ling Yi beat two hostile Masters after they repeatedly provoked him.
• The two Masters revealed Ling Yi’s identity to Liu Zheng, who arrived aboard the boat with a Ninth Pin Grandmaster and demanded that Ling Yi accompany him.
• Ling Yi killed Liu Zheng’s Masters and, after Liu Zheng slaughtered Sister Yun and the boat’s guards, killed Liu Zheng with a single punch before dying from the Grandmaster’s attack.
• Ling Yi ended the simulation and declared that Liu Zheng would die, but did not yet select a reward.

Ling Yi chose a reward that raised his cultivation to eighth pin and explored the prison and its surroundings with his Intent Realms. He expanded his karmic luck radius, then began another simulation that revealed the crown prince’s agents were waiting in Sanhe County to kill him.

• Ling Yi selected reward 2 and advanced from sixth pin to eighth pin, gaining seven Intent Realms.
• Ling Yi used First Mystic Jade Intent to map the prison and sense the masked man, the people nearby, and powerful martial practitioners in an inn.
• Ling Yi spent 3000 karmic luck points to expand his karmic luck radius to 1000 meters, causing his points to rise again.
• In the next simulation, Ling Yi forced Zheng Qi to reveal that the third prince was in Qinghe County, then killed Zheng Qi and the masked man before heading to an inn.
• Ling Yi confronted Yue Hai and Bai Qishan, learned they served the crown prince Liu Qi and had come to kill him, and questioned why the Black Guard appeared divided between the princes.

After learning that Tang Sanshan and his family had been killed, Ling Yi broke out of prison, flew to Qinghe County, and killed the third prince Liu Zheng before returning. He saved Tang Sanshan by secretly killing a Black Guard commander, then resumed cultivating as the simulation comments described the aftermath of the third prince’s death.

• After seeing the simulation report Tang Sanshan’s death, Ling Yi broke out of his cell and flew toward Qinghe County.
• Ling Yi confronted Liu Zheng, snapped the third prince’s neck, and told Peng Wanli that he would take Liu Zheng’s place.
• Ling Yi killed a Black Guard hundred-guard commander approaching Tang Sanshan, removing the danger that had threatened Tang Sanshan and his family.
• Tang Sanshan found the dead commander, recognized the Black Guard token, and hurried away with his family.
• Ling Yi returned to Sanhe County, questioned Peng Wanli, and went back to his cell to cultivate.
• The simulation comments described Ling Yi learning the Heavenly Gang Realm breakthrough method from Yan Cheng and news of the third prince’s death reaching Crown Prince Liu Qi and Emperor Liu Jin.

Ling Yi reached the Ninth Pin Heavenly Dipper Realm, fought Situ Yun in a simulation, and learned that the immortal path lay beyond martial cultivation. He tested his Heavenly Dipper abilities and advanced to the Seventh Layer before beginning a new simulation as Yan Cheng entered his cell.

• Ling Yi reached the Ninth Pin and was summoned to the imperial city, but Situ Yun ambushed him and killed him in a clash that also took Situ Yun’s life.
• Ling Yi chose ten percent cultivation, then experimented with transparent Dipper swords and combinations of his seven Heavenly Dippers.
• Ling Yi began grinding his cultivation through skipped simulations, reaching the Heavenly Dipper Realm Seventh Layer.
• Yan Cheng entered Ling Yi’s cell, and the simulation comments revealed that he had come to test whether Ling Yi was truly a Grandmaster.

Ling Yi intimidated Yan Cheng and Liu Xi into cooperating, then learned about the realms and breakthrough methods beyond ninth-grade martial practitioners. After his simulation showed that Spirit Mastery expert Situ Tian would kill him in the imperial capital, Ling Yi chose a reward containing pills and a Dipper-sealing cultivation art so he could break through before returning.

• Ling Yi revealed Yan Cheng's ties to the Third Prince and claimed the identity of Liu Zheng, pressuring Yan Cheng with the threat of exposure to Liu Jin.
• Liu Xi arrived and urged Yan Cheng to kill Ling Yi, but Ling Yi pierced Liu Xi's shoulders with invisible force and restrained Yan Cheng with hidden swords.
• Liu Xi accepted Ling Yi as his superior and explained the six realms above martial practitioners, along with methods for entering the Spirit Mastery Realm.
• Ling Yi's simulation showed that Situ Tian killed him after reaching the imperial capital, despite Ling Yi killing Situ Yun and the Third Prince during the simulated journey.
• Ling Yi resolved to reach the Spirit Mastery Realm before returning to the imperial capital and selected reward 3: Mirror-Breaking Pills, Dipper-Sealing Pills, and the Jiuyuan Dipper-Sealing Art.

Ling Yi recruited Liu Xi and Yan Cheng to help him claim the throne and kept Liu Zheng alive as a useful ally. Liu Zheng warned him that the Immortal Gates forbade emperors from reaching the Master Realm because an emperor’s National Fortune Dragon Qi could become a threat.

• Ling Yi confirmed that his pills included rare Dipper-Sealing Pills and promised them to Liu Xi and Yan Cheng in exchange for their help entering the imperial city and seizing the throne.
• Yan Cheng explained that the crown prince controlled the court while Liu Jin weakened, and that the Black Guard held evidence of the crown prince’s past plot against Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi dismissed the evidence as insufficient, ordered Liu Xi and Yan Cheng to bring Liu Zheng to him alive, and bought two more storage spaces.
• Liu Zheng arrived the next morning, and Ling Yi told him he planned to take the throne by killing the crown prince and fourth prince.
• Liu Zheng revealed that the Hao Ran Sword School barred emperors from becoming Masters because a Master emperor’s National Fortune Dragon Qi could become tangible and rival Spirit Mastery Realm strength.

Ling Yi learned about the Immortal Gates and the Dragon Martial Emperor’s defeat, then put Liu Zheng and his companions under his control while preparing to claim the throne. His simulation showed him sealing his Dipper force, reaching the Spirit Mastery Realm, and planning to use Mirror-Breaking Pills to grow stronger.

• Liu Zheng told Ling Yi how the Dragon Martial Empire’s reliance on National Fortune had nearly let its emperor defeat the three great Immortal Gates.
• Ling Yi revealed his ambition to oppose the Immortal Gates, and his Dipper force overwhelmed martial practitioners across Sanhe County.
• Ling Yi ordered Liu Zheng to act as his shadow, Liu Xi to spread a story about Liu Zheng’s injuries, and Yan Cheng to gather information in the imperial capital.
• Ling Yi began a simulation and discovered that Dipper sealing left him nearly defenseless until the process was complete.
• In the simulation, Liu Zheng became a Lesser Master, and Ling Yi supplied him with Divine Martial Pills.
• Ling Yi completed Dipper sealing, used Dipper-Sealing Pills to fuse Spiritual Power with Dipper force, and entered the Spirit Mastery Realm.