Recaps

Ling Yi confronted Liu Chen after his golden finger was taken, then received a lottery draw that revealed a third protagonist and sent a clone to ask Lin Aotian about the growing power of origin. As Liu Chen left Oasis Sacred City, Ling Yi chose not to kill him and questioned whether the protagonists’ destructive actions reflected the will of the worlds themselves.

• Liu Yun reported that Liu Chen’s golden finger had disappeared, and Ling Yi admitted he had it and summoned Liu Chen to make clear Liu Yun was not responsible.
• Liu Yun urged Ling Yi to eliminate Liu Chen, but Ling Yi let him go and wondered whether he could recover without his golden finger.
• The system awarded Ling Yi a lottery draw for clearing Liu Yun’s name, and he obtained the original novel about a Heavenly Court foot soldier.
• Ling Yi ordered Liu Yun to delegate her work before a trip to Arctic Sacred City, then sent a powerful clone to consult Lin Aotian without revealing his own hand.
• Ling Yi watched Liu Chen leave Oasis Sacred City and declined to pursue him, despite learning that personally killing a protagonist would earn him ten lottery draws.
• Ling Yi challenged the system’s claim that protagonists were scourges, and the system fell silent when he asked whether it was itself a consciousness of heaven and earth.

Ling Yi discussed his unexplained, rapidly increasing Power of Origin with Lin Aotian, who revealed that he had found some worlds replenishing their Origin from beyond the Myriad Worlds’ boundary. Ling Yi suspected the outside source was tied to the novel world and realized Lin Aotian had killed three protagonists, including Xu Mo.

• Ling Yi finished reading the third novel and found its protagonist was a covert troublemaker in the Heavenly Court, but chose to pursue the third God Grade cultivation technique before confronting him.
• Ling Yi’s clone returned to Blue Star and met Lin Aotian outside Beihai City’s High Martial Arts University; Lin Aotian said he would have given Ling Yi the Source Devouring Technique without a trip to the Golden Crow Realm.
• Lin Aotian took Ling Yi to Ruoxi Valley, where Ling Yi explained that nearly sixty thousand units of Power of Origin had appeared in him without his devouring any world’s Origin.
• Lin Aotian described how two worlds regained their Power of Origin after he had drained them, then stopped recovering after he killed their Children of Karmic Luck.
• Lin Aotian revealed that the Myriad Worlds were sealed inside an enormous eggshell and that the two Children of Karmic Luck had received their fortune from beyond it.
• Ling Yi inferred that Lin Aotian had killed three protagonists, counting Xu Mo, and said he had guesses about the external Power of Origin but could not yet be certain.

Lin Aotian proposed that the worlds were novel worlds and that Ling Yi might be a protagonist whose Source Devouring Technique intercepted Power of Origin. To test the idea, Ling Yi brought Liu Chen back to him, then forced him to choose between submitting and facing the desert alone; Liu Chen followed, though his hostility remained.

• Lin Aotian theorized that novel readers generated Power of Origin and that Ling Yi was a protagonist diverting it from the world.
• Ling Yi questioned the system, which said a third-party force had intervened but that its records began only when it bound itself to him.
• Ling Yi teleported Liu Chen back from near Oasis Sacred City and noticed that Liu Chen's presence greatly increased his Power of Origin.
• Ling Yi warned Liu Chen that Arctic Sacred City was ruled by Situ Yue, who devoured flesh and blood, and offered to make Liu Chen a cultivation genius if he submitted.
• Liu Chen chose to submit, but Ling Yi sensed that his hostility remained, left him in the desert, and watched him follow.

After Ling Yi opened Liu Chen’s meridians, he gained new system functions and confirmed that changing a protagonist reduced their karmic luck. Ling Yi then reached Arctic Sacred City and found it drenched in blood and devoid of life, while Situ Yue had vanished.

• Ling Yi opened Liu Chen’s meridians, causing his cultivation to surge, and the system rewarded Ling Yi for rehabilitating him.
• Ling Yi drew a data panel, a Primordial Spirit Network, and Karmic Luck Point Allocation, then used karmic luck to raise his cultivation to the current world’s limit.
• Ling Yi concluded that changing a protagonist’s future drastically reduced their karmic luck, and he sent Liu Chen back to Oasis Sacred City.
• Ling Yi flew to Arctic Sacred City and found no living markers on the dynamic map.
• Ling Yi discovered that Situ Yue had used a formation to drain the blood of the city’s more than fifty million cultivators, then fled Forgotten Planet.

Ling Yi connected Liu Yun and the fleeing Situ Yue to the Primordial Spirit Network, then pursued Situ Yue to Golden Crow Planet. There, Ling Yi and Liu Yun learned that Situ Yue had placed Liu Yun under a red warrant and Ling Yi under a gold warrant, and they considered how to protect Ancient Star Realm.

• Ling Yi used karmic luck to connect Liu Yun to the Primordial Spirit Network and told her to prepare 100,000 cultivators to leave Forgotten Planet.
• Ling Yi added Situ Yue to the network, where Situ Yue accidentally revealed that he was on Golden Crow Planet before going silent.
• Ling Yi teleported to Liu Yun, and the two traveled to Golden Crow Planet, but Situ Yue had escaped through a teleport array moments earlier.
• Liu Yun confronted the Liu Clan guards at the array; when they attacked, she defeated them and learned that she was under a red warrant issued by Situ Yue.
• A surviving guard told Ling Yi that he was under the Alliance's highest-level gold warrant, which also made living beings from his world capture targets.
• Ling Yi realized Situ Yue was trying to keep him occupied protecting Blue Star, and Liu Yun asked whether Oasis Sacred City should protect Ancient Star Realm.

Ling Yi sent Liu Yun and a hundred thousand Qi Sea Realm cultivators to find Situ Yue and prepare to subdue the Liu Clan, then traveled to the Jiuyuan Realm to seek the complete Seven-Turn Demonic Cloud Art. Meanwhile, Lin Aotian discovered Ling Yi was seeking a third God Grade technique, and a mysterious shadowy figure resembling Xu Mo watched Lin Yuan’s school.

• Ling Yi used a teleportation passage to bring a hundred thousand cultivators from the Forgotten Planet to the Golden Crow Planet, then raised them all to the Qi Sea Realm and appointed Liu Yun commander of the Sacred Army.
• Ling Yi ordered Liu Yun to find Situ Yue, while Liu Yun surrounded Liucheng, summoned the Liu Clan’s leader and ancestor, and sent Zhu Siming to invite the Zhu Clan’s leader from Cold Yang Star.
• Ling Yi departed for the Jiuyuan Realm to search for the complete Seven-Turn Demonic Cloud Art, while Liu Yun prepared to bring the Liu Clan under her control.
• Lin Aotian pulled Ling Yi’s clone into Ruoxi Valley and learned that it had fused Ling Yi’s perfected Heaven and Earth Divine Yuan Art and Source Devouring Technique clones.
• Lin Yuan mistook a student for Xu Mo, while the actual shadowy figure watched her school and vanished into an ornamental tree’s shadow.
• Lin Aotian realized Ling Yi was pursuing the third God Grade technique and asked what would happen if one person learned all three.

Ling Yi and Lin Aotian discovered that Xu Mo had returned in a new body and concluded that an author was using the protagonists and three God Grade cultivation methods to break the wall between the novel world and reality. Ling Yi learned the author had prepared two plans and hurried to advance the second, while sending Liu Yun a new mission involving six protagonists.

• Ling Yi and Lin Aotian found Xu Mo, who had returned in Gao Ping's body with the Shadow Plunder talent, and Ling Yi ordered that he be imprisoned rather than killed.
• Ling Yi asked the system for the six remaining novels, then gathered all nine protagonists in an isolated Primordial Spirit Network group.
• Ling Yi realized the author intended to break the fourth wall either by having the nine protagonists combine their real-world popularity or by fusing the three God Grade cultivation methods.
• Ling Yi confirmed that Wan Yang Star lay beside Jiuyuan Star and that he was close to completing the Seven Revolutions Motian Art.
• Liu Yun told Ling Yi that Situ Yue had been found on Cold Yang Star, and Ling Yi sent a clone to the coordinates before assigning Liu Yun a new mission involving six protagonists.

Ling Yi recovered the Seven Revolutions Motian Art, considered opening a passage between the novel world and reality, and learned that his soul swap had resulted from his own actions. After sending his real-world counterpart back and reuniting with Yin Wanqing, he left several protagonists complaining about being imprisoned or forgotten.

• Ling Yi found the Seven Revolutions Motian Art in a ruined temple on Jiuyuan Star, and his system raised the God Grade cultivation method to perfection.
• Ling Yi discussed opening a passage between the novel world and reality with his slipper-wearing counterpart, who revealed that the author had cancer and could be brought into the novel world for treatment.
• Slipper-wearing Ling Yi explained that the author had said the swap between their worlds should never have happened, and Ling Yi's sealed memories returned, showing that the swap had been his own doing.
• Ling Yi gave his golden finger to slipper-wearing Ling Yi and sent him back to the real world, then reflected that his story had skimmed over too many plot points.
• Yin Wanqing emerged from a black vortex, reunited with Ling Yi in a long embrace, and several protagonists complained in a forgotten chat group about being imprisoned or left unnamed.

After Qingcheng Sect disciples killed Ling Shuang, Ling Yi’s anger activated the Infinite Death Soldier Summon System, and he vowed to destroy the sect. He left Old Bull Village and, after observing the Qingcheng Martial Arts School in Green Mountain Town, recognized the two disciples who had attacked his sister and summoned death soldiers.

• Ling Yi found Ling Shuang dead after two Qingcheng Sect disciples assaulted her and knocked him unconscious.
• Ling Yi’s anger activated the Infinite Death Soldier Summon System, which granted him one death soldier and the Green Self-Destruct trait.
• Ling Yi recalled the Qingcheng Sect’s cruelty and its control over the surrounding region, then vowed to avenge Ling Shuang.
• Ling Yi buried Ling Shuang, burned their cottage, and left Old Bull Village for Green Mountain Town.
• After watching the Qingcheng Martial Arts School for three days, Ling Yi recognized the two disciples who had attacked Ling Shuang and ordered, “Summon death soldiers!”

Ling Yi avenged his sister Ling Shuang by killing the two men who had assaulted her, then targeted the Shahe Gang for money using his death soldiers. After recovering at an inn, he remained determined to survive and destroy the Qingcheng Sect.

• Ling Yi killed the two men who had harmed Ling Shuang outside the Qingcheng Martial Arts School.
• Ling Yi headed to Shahe Gang territory and used a death soldier to ambush a fat gang member, taking his money and two booklets.
• When Shahe Gang members surrounded the death soldier, Ling Yi used another death soldier to escape with the stolen items while the first caused an explosion.
• Ling Yi checked into an inn, ate, bought new clothes, and slept until the following day.
• After waking, Ling Yi thought of Ling Shuang and reaffirmed that he would survive and destroy the Qingcheng Sect.

Ling Yi discovered that his death soldiers’ self-destructs had unlocked the Red Damage Transfer trait, which distributed his injuries among all summoned soldiers. After using them to kill Yu Renyan and attack the Shahe Gang, he led his growing force toward the gang’s headquarters to increase his summonable death soldier count.

• Ling Yi shared the perception of a captured death soldier, which taunted Yu Renyan and revealed his identity before three death soldiers appeared and blew up everyone in the room.
• The deaths unlocked Ling Yi’s second trait, Red Damage Transfer, which evenly distributed damage he suffered among his summoned death soldiers.
• Ling Yi spotted Shahe Gang members ransacking houses and deployed death soldiers to kill many of them, raising his summonable count to twenty-seven.
• Ling Yi suspected the next trait might require one hundred summonable death soldiers, then summoned twenty-five and led them toward the Shahe Gang headquarters to build his forces.

Ling Yi used his suicide soldiers to attack the Shahe Gang and Qingcheng Sect after Yu Xiong killed a family and his sister Ling Shuang died. After the soldiers gained ordinary intelligence, they began destroying the Qingcheng Sect, but skilled disciples started countering them with hidden weapons.

• Yu Xiong killed a girl’s family, then died when Ling Yi’s suicide soldiers stormed the Shahe Gang headquarters.
• Ling Yi reflected on Ling Shuang’s death and planned to visit Doctor Wong, who had once saved him.
• Qingcheng Sect disciples accosted Ling Yi, and a suicide soldier’s explosion killed them and raised his summonable soldier count to 101.
• Ling Yi gained the White Wisdom trait, sent his intelligent suicide soldiers to destroy the Qingcheng Sect, and watched explosions spread through Green Mountain Town.
• Ling Yi spotted powerful Qingcheng Sect disciples at the martial arts school killing suicide soldiers with hidden weapons, slowing his growing forces.

Ling Yi used death soldiers to attack the Qingcheng Martial Arts School and confronted Yu Canghai, who blamed the sect’s crimes on tribute demanded by the Tianxia Society. Ling Yi revealed that he sought revenge for his sister, Ling Shuang, and destroyed the school in a massive explosion.

• Ling Yi observed that the death soldiers attacked rigidly, then deployed more to overwhelm the Qingcheng Sect disciples with sudden appearances and self-destructions.
• Yu Canghai watched the attack, tried to flee, and was wounded when a death soldier appeared beside him and detonated.
• Ling Yi surrounded Yu Canghai with death soldiers and questioned him about the Qingcheng Sect’s abuses.
• Yu Canghai claimed the Tianxia Society demanded a million taels of silver in annual tribute and had taken control of Great Ming, but Ling Yi remained unconvinced.
• Ling Yi told Yu Canghai he was taking revenge because the Qingcheng Sect had killed Ling Shuang, then detonated over a hundred death soldiers and reduced the school to ruins.

Ling Yi mourned Ling Shuang, reflected on the chaos caused by the Tianxia Society, and returned to his courtyard to find Shangguan Haitang waiting. She revealed that his death soldiers had drawn attention and urged him to help drive the Tianxia Society from Great Ming, but he refused, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Ling Yi visited Ling Shuang's grave, recounted destroying the Qingcheng Sect, and grieved over losing his only family.
• Ling Yi learned through his death soldiers that the Tianxia Society had forced several sects to disband or submit, while other Jianghu forces resisted its rule.
• Ling Yi returned to Green Mountain Town and found a disguised woman waiting in the courtyard, so he summoned his death soldiers and confronted her.
• The woman identified herself as Shangguan Haitang, one of the Dragon Guarding Manor's Four Great Secret Agents, and said she had secretly protected Ling Yi from other forces.
• Shangguan Haitang asked Ling Yi to join her group and help expel the Tianxia Society, but Ling Yi refused and challenged her when she asked how many death soldiers he had left.

Ling Yi rejected Shangguan Haitang’s offer but decided to travel to Mount Song for an Innate Pill, while Shangguan Haitang and her allies planned to use the trip against Xiongba’s disciple Bu Jingyun. After Ling Yi’s death warriors destroyed a Qingcheng Sect hideout, he gained a new trait slot and received a choice to replace a trait.

• Shangguan Haitang offered Ling Yi an Innate Pill and a Body Refining technique if he proved useful, but Ling Yi refused to join her without receiving them first.
• Before leaving, Shangguan Haitang told Ling Yi that Bu Jingyun would collect Innate Pills at Mount Song in half a month, and Ling Yi decided to pursue one.
• Shangguan Haitang reported Ling Yi’s mysterious death warriors to the woman in red at the Flower Garden Pavilion, and they discussed trapping Bu Jingyun at Mount Song.
• Yu Renhao’s Qingcheng Sect survivors disguised themselves as villagers after slaughtering a nearby village, but Ling Yi’s death warriors appeared and destroyed them in a series of explosions.
• Ling Yi gained enough summon allowance to unlock a trait slot, acquired the white Enhancement trait, and received the blue Ignore trait as the month’s refresh choice.

Ling Yi replaced a death soldier trait, then traveled toward Mount Song while other factions debated his lifeless soldiers and suspected he was a Qi refiner from Great Qin. Yaoyue left the group to pursue Ling Yi, and she and Lianxing caught up with his carriage.

• Ling Yi chose to replace the Enhancement trait with one that ignored 20% of an enemy’s defense, then left Green Mountain Town for Mount Song with over a hundred death soldiers while others traveled ahead to gather information.
• Zhang Wuji, Zhuge Zhengwo, Ren Woxing, and the others watched Ling Yi depart and discussed his death soldiers, which Yaoyue said lacked life Qi and resembled creations made by Great Qin Qi refiners.
• Yaoyue explained that martial practitioners and Qi refiners followed incompatible paths, but admitted she coveted Ling Yi’s methods as the others prioritized securing the Innate Pill from Xiongba.
• Zhuge Zhengwo led the group toward Mount Song to meet Perfected Zhang, while Yaoyue declared that she would follow Ling Yi instead.
• Yaoyue and Lianxing flew through the treetops and caught up with Ling Yi’s carriage, where Lianxing asked why Yaoyue had told the others about Qi refiners.

Yaoyue and Lianxing followed Ling Yi toward Mount Song while speculating that his death soldiers came from a treasure, and Yaoyue discovered their explosions could injure her. Ling Yi learned that killing beasts did not increase his count, reached Dengfeng Commandery, and prepared to climb Mount Song for Shaolin’s Innate Pill.

• Yaoyue told Lianxing that Ling Yi might rely on a treasure rather than Qi-refining abilities, and the sisters continued watching him.
• Ling Yi read about the world’s natural treasures and sent his death soldiers into the mountains to test whether killing beasts increased his count, but it did not.
• Yaoyue tested the death soldiers’ explosions and found that they could hurt her despite leaving her protective True Yuan intact.
• Ling Yi spotted two veiled women following his carriage and suspected they were powerful martial artists.
• Ling Yi reached Dengfeng Commandery, obtained a temporary waist token, and planned to climb Mount Song the next day to seek Shaolin’s Innate Pill.

Ling Yi discovered that Yaoyue’s attacks increased his death soldier summon limit through Damage Transfer, then negotiated with her to help retrieve Ice Marrow Essence from the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Silkworm’s cavern. The chapter left Yaoyue striking him again so he could raise his limit further.

• Ling Yi sat with Yaoyue and Lianxing at the Yuelai Inn and let Yaoyue test his apparent invulnerability.
• Yaoyue’s attacks killed Ling Yi’s death soldiers through Damage Transfer, increasing his summon limit from 1,253 to 6,703.
• Ling Yi concluded that Damage Transfer had limits and that he needed to strengthen himself or raise his summon limit to withstand stronger foes.
• Yaoyue explained that Innate Pills would not fully cure Ling Yi’s crippled physique and offered Ice Marrow Essence as a possible remedy.
• Yaoyue asked Ling Yi to help obtain Ice Marrow Essence so she could perfect her Mingyu Gong, and Ling Yi asked her to punch him ten more times at full strength.
• Yaoyue immediately struck Ling Yi again.

Ling Yi gained the Purple Stacking trait, allowing him to conceal and deploy more than ten thousand death soldiers as one person, and learned about the powers and divisions in Great Qin and Great Ming. He set out for Mount Song to obtain the Innate Pill, leaving Yaoyue and Lianxing at the inn before heading south with them toward Dali afterward.

• After Yaoyue struck Ling Yi ten times, his summonable death soldier count exceeded ten thousand, granting him the Purple Stacking trait.
• Ling Yi explained his growth to Yaoyue and Lianxing, and they agreed to cooperate in helping him become stronger in pursuit of the Ice Marrow Essence.
• Yaoyue revealed that she and Lianxing had followed Ling Yi hoping to seize his supposed treasure, then described Great Qin’s Qi refiners and the conflict between Luowang and Great Ming’s divided Jianghu.
• Ling Yi learned that the Tianxia Society had invaded Great Ming and that several major sects had submitted, while other factions formed a fragile alliance against it.
• The next morning, Ling Yi left the inn with a death soldier made from ten thousand stacked soldiers and headed for Mount Song to obtain the Innate Pill.

Ling Yi climbed Mount Song seeking the Innate Pill and discovered the Shaolin abbot had given him a potent poison instead. After turning the poison’s lethal effect into a huge increase in summon counts, Ling Yi revealed his instant detonation attack and threatened the Shaolin monks.

• Zhuge Zhengwo and the others followed Ling Yi toward Mount Song, while Ling Yi summoned a second death soldier to make a crude stretcher and carry him uphill.
• At Mount Song’s fork, Shaolin’s old monk offered Ling Yi a porcelain bottle and told him to leave; Ling Yi swallowed the pill and realized it was poison.
• As death soldiers died from the poison, Ling Yi repeatedly summoned replacements, raising his summon count to over seventy thousand.
• Ling Yi demanded more poison and the real Innate Pill, then threatened to destroy Mount Song when the old monk refused.
• Ling Yi demonstrated his zero-frame summon, stacking, and detonation attack, killing dozens of Shaolin monks with a crimson blast and demanding the old monk hand over the goods.

Ling Yi forced Shaolin and the Mount Song Sect to surrender their treasures and gather poison for him, then set out with Yaoyue for Green Mountain Town to preserve his sister’s body. On the way, a third Ten Thousand Poisons Pill brought his death soldier summon count to one hundred thousand.

• Ling Yi threatened Shaolin until Du'e handed over ten Innate Pills and five Ten Thousand Poisons Pills, and agreed that Shaolin and the Mount Song Sect would gather poisons for him.
• Ling Yi spared the two sects but emptied their coffers, then stored their manuals, medicines, and wealth in a manor in Dengfeng Commandery.
• Ling Yi asked Yaoyue to seek out a way to revive his sister, then realized he first needed to preserve her body and asked Yaoyue to take him to Green Mountain Town.
• Yaoyue accepted three Innate Pills as payment and immediately carried Ling Yi away, leaving Lianxing at the manor with the treasure and death soldiers.
• During the journey, Ling Yi ate a third Ten Thousand Poisons Pill, which raised his death soldier summon count to one hundred thousand.

Ling Yi gained the ability to swap places with death soldiers and used it to race Yaoyue before rescuing Liu Shuang’er from disguised government troops who had slaughtered her village. At Ling Shuang’s grave, they discovered it had been opened and she was missing; Yaoyue sensed signs of life in the coffin, and Ling Yi questioned a nearby beggar for answers.

• Ling Yi gained the gold trait Swap and demonstrated his death-soldier teleportation to Yaoyue as they raced toward Green Mountain Town.
• Ling Yi killed disguised government troops who had massacred a village, then took in the sole survivor, Liu Shuang’er, and ordered death soldiers to bury the villagers.
• A masked figure found Ling Shuang’s grave, discovered a Thousand-Year Zombie Firefly Grass growing above her, and carried her away as a disciple.
• Ling Yi found Ling Shuang’s grave torn open and summoned death soldiers to search the area, while Yaoyue sensed life energy in the coffin and suggested Ling Shuang might still be alive.
• Yaoyue pulled a recently awakened beggar out of the woods so they could ask what had happened to Ling Shuang.

Ling Yi learned that his sister Ling Shuang had survived after being revived by Thousand-Year Zombie Firefly Grass, and he planned to seek the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Silkworm before attacking the Tianxia Society. After returning to Dengfeng Commandery with Yaoyue, Liu Shuang'er, and Huang Rong, he asked Huang Rong to make poison and encouraged her and Liu Shuang'er to study martial arts, while preparing to test his own ability to cultivate.

• Huang Rong told Ling Yi that a mysterious black-robed figure had taken Ling Shuang as a disciple, and Ling Yi rewarded her with an Innate Pill.
• Huang Rong explained that Zombie Firefly Grass could revive the dead but could turn them into blood-consuming zombies, and said her father was searching for it.
• Ling Yi decided to travel to Dali for the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Silkworm and later wipe out the Tianxia Society.
• Three days later, Ling Yi, Yaoyue, Liu Shuang'er, and Huang Rong returned to Dengfeng Commandery, where Huang Rong impressed everyone with her cooking.
• Ling Yi asked Huang Rong to make poison from the manor's unused ingredients and invited Liu Shuang'er and Huang Rong to choose martial arts manuals.
• Huang Rong took Liu Shuang'er to select techniques, while Ling Yi prepared to try practicing martial arts himself.

Ling Yi benefited from Huang Rong’s poison cooking and learned that rumors about him had drawn the attention of the Tianxia Society. Bu Jingyun arrived demanding the Innate Pills and for Ling Yi to return with him, and their confrontation began outside Dengfeng Commandery.

• Ling Yi practiced Vajra Indestructibility and Hundred-Step Movement, but his weak Qi and Blood made him abandon the body-refining technique.
• Huang Rong gave Ling Yi poisonous pastries that tasted delicious and sharply increased his death soldier summon count; he told her to make more.
• Yaoyue reported rumors about Ling Yi’s powers and Shaolin’s treasures, and Ling Yi discussed the Immortal Realm and the Feng Yun Domain with her.
• Bu Jingyun blasted open Ling Yi’s manor gate and demanded the Innate Pills and that Ling Yi return to the Tianxia Society.
• Ling Yi led Bu Jingyun outside the city and invited him to strike once; Bu Jingyun’s Cloud Dispelling Palm cratered the ground but left Ling Yi unharmed.

Ling Yi effortlessly defeated Bu Jingyun, spared him to send a warning to Xiongba, and drew Zhuge Zhengwo’s concern as the court’s plans against him came to light. Back at his manor, Ling Yi met Dongfang Bubai, who gave him the Sunflower Codex and agreed to provide Three Corpse Brain Spirit Pills.

• Bu Jingyun attacked Ling Yi with repeated Cloud Dispelling Palm strikes, but even his strengthened fourth form failed to harm him.
• Ling Yi blasted Bu Jingyun away, spared him, and ordered him to tell Xiongba to wait for Ling Yi to kill him.
• Zhuge Zhengwo learned that Xiongba had left Seong-kyeong and decided he needed to contact Ling Yi, whom he feared the court could no longer control.
• Ling Yi returned to find his manor gate smashed and discovered that 700 death soldier summons had been added to his total.
• Dongfang Bubai introduced himself and apologized for shooting a needle at Ling Yi; Ling Yi demanded the Sunflower Codex and the Three Corpse Brain Spirit Pill formula, and Dongfang Bubai handed over the Codex and promised to send pills.
• Ling Yi found Huang Rong making a poisonous concoction in the courtyard while Yaoyue and Lianxing were away buying medicinal ingredients.