Recaps

After clearing the Urban Battle Royale scenario, Ling Yi returned to the cave and tried to explore beyond it, but warnings and the system urged him to stay inside. A seal disturbance triggered an emergency scenario, and Ling Yi found himself assigned to protect Dr. Ma in Dafeng City while deciding to strengthen himself before leaving the cave.

• Ling Yi ignored the scenario prompts and received the Perfect Controller reward, then approached the cave exit and saw warnings against leaving the safe zone.
• Ling Yi withdrew from the exit and sent a Paper Talisman Puppet outside to inspect the courtyard.
• At a secret experimental base, AI Nüwa reported that a contestant had touched the seal, prompting officials to launch an emergency simulated scenario with virtual contestants.
• Ling Yi was transported into the Mutant Rat Frenzy scenario as a school gate security guard, with tasks to protect Dr. Ma, stay in Dafeng City, and survive for a month.
• Ling Yi upgraded Photosynthesis to Version 2.2 and reviewed his strength, abilities, equipment, and Personal Space before deciding to wait until he reached dimension grade.

Ling Yi found Dr. Ma and watched her question an unusually intelligent rat, learning that a rat intelligence surge was linked to an explosion at North Leaf Biology Laboratory. The rat contacted an online friend to locate research documents, while nearly a million rats in Dafeng City began converging on the institute.

• Ling Yi located Dr. Ma at the Dafeng City Biotechnology Institute and secretly observed her experiment.
• Dr. Ma discovered the rat could understand and speak, and it revealed that it had become smarter about a week earlier.
• The rat told Dr. Ma that rats near North Leaf City were more intelligent and that some had found documents in the laboratory that exploded.
• Dr. Ma put the rat in a glass cage and had it message its friend, Linlin, to find out where the documents were.
• After the rat sent its message, nearly a million rats across Dafeng City began converging on the institute.

Ling Yi summoned thousands of enhanced, human-intelligent Chinese tabbies to defend the academy from mutated rats gathering in its sewers. As darkness fell, the rats emerged and the cats began killing them, leaving Linlin and Daqin watching the battle unfold.

• Ling Yi discovered that huge numbers of rats had gathered in the sewers around the academy and decided to counter them by summoning enhanced Chinese tabbies.
• The cats appeared throughout the academy, drawing students’ attention as Linlin chased one and Daqin grew wary of their strange, disciplined behavior.
• As night fell, hundreds of cats surrounded Linlin and Daqin, then turned their attention to a sewer manhole as noises rose from below.
• Rats burst out of the sewer, and the Chinese tabbies held their positions and swiftly killed those that approached.
• Linlin and Daqin watched the cat-and-mouse battle break out across the academy wherever rats emerged from sewers.

Tabby cat soldiers protected Dr. Ma from an armed rat assault on the Dafeng City Biotechnology Institute, while the rats sought her complete NR33 research. Dr. Ma agreed to develop an antidote as the cats prepared to guard her and the research.

• Daqin and Linlin watched tabby cats slaughter rats emerging from a sewer as students and authorities gathered at the school.
• Dr. Ma realized the rats wanted her complete NR33 research, which they hoped would help them advance and spread their intelligence.
• Special forces rats smashed into Dr. Ma's laboratory and demanded the research, but a dozen tabby cats dropped in and defended her.
• The cat soldiers routed the rats and explained that they would protect Dr. Ma while she developed an antidote; Dr. Ma said she needed a few days.
• A tabby urged Dr. Ma to save humanity, and she returned to the laboratory while another cat toyed with a captured rat.

Ling Yi’s cat-shaped mechs stopped a raid by intelligent rats piloting newly built giant rat mechs, while Dr. Ma continued to struggle to produce an antidote to NR33. Ling Yi realized the simulated scenario was sabotaging her work and decided to respond in kind.

• After the rats’ attack on the institute ended, human forces searched the campus but found no trace of the tabby cats, which Ling Yi had returned to his personal space.
• Over the next few days, authorities exterminated rats across Dafeng City and North Leaf City, while the rats in North Leaf City derived the NR33 formula and began manufacturing the agent.
• On the fifth night, Master Gao and nine other truck drivers delivered ten giant metal rat mechs near the institute after rats threatened their families.
• The rat mechs charged toward Dr. Ma, but Ling Yi’s three larger cat-shaped mechs blocked them, and additional cat mechs joined the fight until all ten rat mechs were destroyed.
• Dr. Ma’s antidote formulation kept failing because the simulated scenario was sabotaging her work, and Ling Yi resolved to use underhanded tactics in return.

Ling Yi foiled the rats’ drone raid and plot to flood Dafeng City while Dr. Ma resisted officials trying to seize her NR33 research. Dr. Ma developed an antidote, but the Rat Emperor had already created a more potent drug, NR34, as the antidote began spreading across North Leaf Province.

• Ling Yi detected tens of thousands of rat-piloted drones and rats planting explosives in the dam, then sent puppet cats to stop them and used lasers to shoot down the drones.
• College officials tried to force Dr. Ma out of her laboratory and take her NR33 research, but authorities arrested them for betraying humanity to the rats.
• Two days later, Dr. Ma tested her antidote on an intelligent rat, and the rat lost its enhanced intelligence.
• The Rat Emperor used one of two vials of NR34 and gave the other to his consort; NR34 boosted intelligence even more than NR33.
• On the twelfth day of the simulation, authorities began deploying the antidote across North Leaf Province, especially in Dafeng City and North Leaf City.

Ling Yi remained in Dafeng City while the Rat Emperor and his wife seized Radiant Water Country, and his mental power grew until he could perceive all of Blue Star. When Dr. Ma traveled to North Leaf City for an academic symposium, the Rat Emperor and Rat Empress confronted her in humanoid robots.

• Ling Yi sent Paper Talisman Puppet cats to protect Dr. Ma after the Rat Emperor and his wife conquered Radiant Water Country and renamed it Rat Country.
• The system rewarded Ling Yi with repeated increases to his mental power, expanding his perception range to 260,000 kilometers and granting him mental power skills.
• Dr. Ma received a notice to attend an academic symposium in North Leaf City, and Ling Yi sent Paper Talisman Puppets to protect her despite his inability to leave Dafeng City.
• On the highway to North Leaf City, Dr. Ma and a tabby cat discussed the Rat Emperor's rapid technological progress and the risks of the NR33 Antidote formula leaking.
• At a tollbooth, the Rat Emperor and Rat Empress emerged in humanoid robots, and the tabby cat leaped out to fight them.

Ling Yi captured the Rat Emperor and his wife, then cleared the sixth simulation scenario and immediately entered an Urban Wuxia assassin scenario. He received a Personal Small World reward, discovered his assassin credentials, and accepted a job from Young Miss before jumping from a rooftop to meet her.

• Ling Yi captured the Rat Emperor and his wife, learned that the Rat Emperor had come to avenge his siblings and feared Dr. Ma developing an NR34 Antidote, then confined the pair in a glass cage for experiments.
• The sixth scenario ended with only seven contestants clearing it; Xiao Lian and Ye Chen also succeeded, while Qin Su was eliminated by the mutant rats.
• Ling Yi returned to the cave, received the Urban Wuxia scenario’s assassin missions and martial-arts objectives, and was transported to a rooftop in Dafeng City.
• Ling Yi received a Personal Small World reward but chose not to fuse it with Personal Space, then found an assassin license and an Assassins app on his phone.
• Young Miss called Ling Yi with a job targeting a Half-Step Second-Rate expert, and he agreed to meet her outside Jiajia Hotpot Restaurant.
• Ling Yi saw an old man leap from a sixth-floor balcony and land in the street, then jumped from the twenty-story rooftop toward his meeting.

Ling Yi met Jin Xiaoxiao outside Jiajia Hot Pot and learned that she had taken an assassination mission against someone from the Wind Sect. He agreed to help for ninety percent of the payout, and the pair prepared to eat before heading to Red Maple Mountain.

• Ling Yi flew to meet Jin Xiaoxiao, who was shocked to see how far his cultivation had advanced since they last met.
• Jin Xiaoxiao explained that her million-yuan mission targeted a Wind Sect member and that abandoning it would cost her a hundred-thousand-yuan penalty.
• Ling Yi told Jin Xiaoxiao to complete the mission, then bargained for ninety percent of the payout in exchange for helping her.
• Jin Xiaoxiao agreed to the split after realizing Ling Yi had reached the Master realm, and she said the target was on Red Maple Mountain.
• Ling Yi produced a Martial Practitioner Coin, and Jin Xiaoxiao explained how Martial Practitioner Coins were used before he offered to buy them hot pot.

Ling Yi and Jin Xiaoxiao tracked Cheng Hu to Red Maple Mountain and discovered that the authorities had listed him as a weakened target despite his apparent recovery. Ling Yi exposed corruption behind the mission and revealed his Master-level strength, leaving Cheng Hu surrendering in fear.

• Ling Yi and Jin Xiaoxiao discussed Cheng Hu’s crimes, his Bone Tempering Realm cultivation, and the assassination commission’s suspicious terms as they searched Red Maple Mountain.
• Ling Yi led Jin Xiaoxiao to a mountain hollow, where they found traces of a campfire and called Cheng Hu down from a tree.
• Cheng Hu revealed that he planned to trade the Wind Sect’s Wind Spirit Movement to corrupt officials in exchange for a new identity and a place in the authorities.
• Ling Yi concluded that someone inside the authorities had rigged the mission to obtain the cultivation method, then said they should capture Cheng Hu and turn him in.
• Ling Yi pierced a tree with golden Innate Gang Qi, revealing himself as a Master, and Cheng Hu surrendered after Ling Yi’s next attack narrowly missed him.

Ling Yi secured a massive cache of peerless martial arts while Cheng Hu died in custody before he could warn the Wind Sect that Ling Yi was a Master. Ling Yi then spotted an upcoming martial arts gathering that could help him pursue the title of World's Finest and registered.

• Cheng Hu turned himself in, surrendered the Wind Spirit Movement manual, exposed a worm in the yamen, and received a thirty-year sentence with his martial arts crippled.
• Ling Yi and Jin Xiaoxiao celebrated the increased mission reward, and Ling Yi later left a Paper Talisman Puppet in the hotel while his real body went to space to sunbathe.
• Cheng Hu severed his own heart meridians and died before he could send a warning to the Wind Sect.
• Ling Yi received a Jin-series martial arts manual mega-pack that instantly granted him mastery of its techniques.
• Ling Yi read the Jianghu Winds and Clouds app and found an announcement for the Jianghu Martial Arts Grand Gathering in ten days.
• Ling Yi tapped the registration link and opened the Martial Arts Grand Gathering app.

Ling Yi entered the Martial Arts Grand Gathering and set out to clear The Assassins’ dead-blade missions. After forcing more than twenty wanted targets to surrender, he left the authorities in Dafeng City baffled by his methods.

• Ling Yi learned that Martial Practitioner Coins were scarce and valuable, then registered for the Martial Arts Grand Gathering and gave Jin Xiaoxiao coins to pay his entry fee and gather information.
• Ling Yi flew to a wealthy mountain village and confronted Ling Han, a flower thief whose disguise skills had kept him hidden for years.
• Ling Yi used a mysterious technique on Ling Han and told him to surrender; Ling Han was driven to the authorities’ office by unbearable itching that stopped only inside.
• More than twenty dead-blade mission targets surrendered at the authorities’ office in one day, all naming Ling Yi as the person who had forced them to do so.
• The authorities investigated Ling Yi and found that the newcomer had only recently received his martial practitioner certificate and was supposedly at the early Body Tempering Realm.

Ling Yi returned to Jin Xiaoxiao after completing twenty missions for The Assassins, then received the Copy skill and began another mission. He confronted the Martial Practitioner Alliance official responsible for Qin Ming’s family tragedy, leaving the suited young man poisoned and terrified.

• Ling Yi explained how his yin-yang light energy powered his Life and Death Talismans and how his mental will set their trigger conditions.
• Jin Xiaoxiao gave Ling Yi his Martial Arts Grand Gathering registration card and told him that over two hundred thousand people had registered.
• At midnight, Ling Yi received Copy, a skill that could replicate everything a target possessed once per day.
• Ling Yi investigated mission target Qin Ming, a martial arts prodigy whose mother and younger sister had died after the Martial Practitioner Alliance ruled their deaths suicides.
• A suited young man arrived at the Dafeng City branch of the Martial Practitioner Alliance and kicked a disguised Qin Ming, who poisoned him with an altered version of Ten Thousand Flowers.

Ling Yi abandoned several Assassin missions after discovering that the targets’ situations were more complicated than their files suggested, and he suspected someone was manipulating the simulation to hinder him. He learned that the Martial Practitioner Alliance was plotting to disrupt the gathering and that counterfeit coins had come from the alliance, leaving him determined to foil its plans and claim the World's Finest title.

• Qin Ming revealed his revenge was complete, so Ling Yi spared him, took him into his Personal Small World, and abandoned the mission.
• Ling Yi abandoned further missions involving people who had killed for revenge, then saved Little Potato from poison and discovered evidence that her classmates had brutally abused her.
• Ling Yi returned to the hotel, heard from Jin Xiaoxiao that five hundred thousand martial practitioners had registered, and said counterfeit Martial Practitioner Coins had entered circulation through the Martial Practitioner Alliance.
• Ling Yi explained that the alliance leader was plotting to challenge the authorities during the gathering, and he resolved to stop the scheme if it threatened his bid to become the World's Finest.

Ling Yi used a loophole in The Assassins missions to send Xia Yun into his Personal Small World and replace her with a Paper Talisman Puppet. He completed one hundred missions in a day and copied Xia Yun’s Illusory Heaven Method, leaving his remaining tasks still to be completed.

• Ling Yi gave Jin Xiaoxiao three survival-focused cultivation techniques before leaving to grind The Assassins missions.
• Ling Yi targeted Xia Yun, a martial arts genius whose Illusory Heaven Method had made her a dead-contract target for the yamen.
• After Xia Yun hypnotized an admirer, Ling Yi sent her into his Personal Small World, where Qin Ming explained that she was no longer on Blue Star.
• Ling Yi transformed a Paper Talisman Puppet into Xia Yun’s likeness and sent it to the yamen, completing the mission.
• Ling Yi completed one hundred runs in a day and copied Xia Yun’s Illusory Heaven Method, which he considered more practical than the Soul-Shifting Great Method.

Ling Yi advanced through the martial arts tournament preliminaries with ten consecutive wins, while learning that the authorities planned to attack the Martial Practitioner Alliance over its Immortal Soldier Project. After the Wind Sect came to the hotel to take revenge on Jin Xiaoxiao, Ling Yi sent its five members into his main body's Personal Space.

• More than eight million contestants registered for the tournament, and Ling Yi defended Ring No. 1 in the opening round.
• Ling Yi defeated one challenger with the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms, repelled a Tang Sect contestant's poison attack, and secured ten consecutive wins to advance.
• Jin Xiaoxiao bet on Ling Yi winning the championship, and Ling Yi continued replenishing his energy and strengthening his mental power at the hotel.
• Ling Yi told Jin Xiaoxiao that the authorities planned to move against the Martial Practitioner Alliance headquarters because of its Immortal Soldier Project.
• Five Wind Sect members broke into the hotel to take revenge on Jin Xiaoxiao for Cheng Hu's death, and Ling Yi sent them into his main body's Personal Space.

Ling Yi learned that the Martial Practitioner Alliance was developing mass-producible immortal soldier robots and advanced through the tournament semifinals with ease. He reached his third match, where he faced Immortal, an independent immortal soldier robot.

• Ling Yi told Jin Xiaoxiao that the Martial Practitioner Alliance had developed immortal soldiers, and explained that the project had appeared out of nowhere and could threaten martial practitioners.
• Jin Xiaoxiao reported that five hundred competitors had reached the Baihai City semifinals, including powerful Masters and the mysterious unaffiliated fighter Immortal; Ling Yi identified Immortal as an independent immortal soldier robot.
• Ling Yi advanced through the preliminaries and traveled to Baihai City, where the semifinals began on the thirty-second day of the simulation.
• Ling Yi copied Songyangzi's Tai Chi Fist Classic and won their match when Songyangzi conceded after seeing Ling Yi's overwhelming Tai Chi Diagram.
• Tang Hao tested Ling Yi with poison, but Ling Yi remained unharmed, so Tang Hao conceded; Ling Yi's next opponent was Immortal.

Ling Yi used his immense mental power to take control of the tournament scenario while preparing to enter its finals. After receiving One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, he discovered that his new clones could cross dimensions, and one appeared beside his mother in the real world.

• Ling Yi captured the immortal soldier robot and sent Zhang Nan and other key figures into his personal small world, replacing them with Paper Talisman Puppets.
• Ling Yi advanced to the tournament finals, where his one-move victories made him popular, and Jin Xiaoxiao warned him that the finals format had changed to a free-for-all.
• Ling Yi revealed that he had secretly replaced officials, experts, and other figures while moving cities and assets into his personal small world, using his greatly increased mental power.
• Ling Yi received One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones and created two clones whose abilities and memories synchronized with his own.
• Ling Yi sensed his mother Jiang Yao in the real world, and one clone crossed dimensions and appeared in his home.

After clearing his seventh simulation scenario, Ling Yi discovered his spawn point had changed and questioned the system about the void beyond it. Back in the real world, Clone No. 1 investigated the show and found evidence that the contestants’ bodies were being kept in machines outside Dragon Capital, while Qin Su appeared to still be participating under another identity.

• Ling Yi cleared the seventh simulation scenario, gained Photosynthesis 3.0, and brought people and cities from the scenario into his Personal Small World.
• Ling Yi No. 2 and Jin Xiaoxiao explored the strange world, while Ling Yi found that his new courtyard spawn point bordered a void that destroyed his paper talisman puppets.
• Ling Yi questioned the system about reaching Dimension Grade and learned that simulation scenarios and his Personal Small World caused a dimensional conflict.
• Ling Yi checked the television’s show data and then synchronized memories with Clone No. 1, who was investigating the show in the real world.
• Clone No. 1 found that Ling Yi, Xiao Lian, and Ye Chen were enclosed in complex machines in the mountains, and he concluded that Qin Su might be continuing the show under another identity.

Ling Yi observed the officials debating whether he and Xiao Lian were cheat users, and they chose to raise the simulation difficulty rather than wake them. He entered a zombie-apocalypse scenario with conflicting objectives and wondered how he could complete them.

• Ling Yi compared the contestants’ real-world and simulation data, then watched and read the memories of officials arguing over whether he and Xiao Lian were cheat users.
• The officials voted against forcibly waking Ling Yi and Xiao Lian, instead ordering Nüwa to increase the difficulty and eliminate them naturally; they also decided to close the overseas contestants’ channel.
• Ling Yi learned that the Myth Seal contained ancient myths, that AI Nüwa was a digitized fragment of the goddess, and that the seal’s release was approaching.
• Ling Yi asked his system about the Heavenly Dao, learned it was Half-Step Dimension Grade, and ordered his first clone to keep growing stronger while he awaited the next scenario.
• Ling Yi entered a zombie-apocalypse scenario as the only intelligent zombie, whose blood could help other zombies evolve, and reviewed the difficult objectives of helping zombies and humans while resolving the crisis.

Ling Feng transformed Dafeng City into a sealed, fertile refuge and left a Paper Talisman Puppet resembling Ling Yi to guide events while he and Ling Yi went to sunbathe. Eleven survivors discovered the farmland, gathered food, and returned to their building, where Sister Bai ordered them to keep watch through the night.

• Ling Yi summoned Ling Feng and sent him to separate humans from zombies while Ling Yi focused on sunbathing in space.
• Ling Feng expelled the zombies from Dafeng City and remodeled it into a self-sustaining farm enclosed by a dome, with a one-way entrance.
• The Ling Yi Paper Talisman Puppet approached the eleven survivors, who had run out of food after surviving the apocalypse for ten years.
• Sister Bai and Dazhuang cautiously reached the cornfield, confirmed the crops were real, and harvested corn with the other survivors.
• After bringing the harvest back to their building and eating, the eleven survivors agreed to take turns watching outside until daybreak.

Bai Rushuang and her ten companions discovered that Dafeng City had become a farmland enclosed by a barrier, then found a river and met Ling Yi, who was secretly testing how his blood affected zombies. The women kept gathering water without speaking to him, and a convoy of fifty-seven people arrived at the barrier, eyeing the crops inside.

• Bai Rushuang and the others confirmed that the city was enclosed by a strange barrier and had no zombies left inside.
• The women found a clear underground-fed river beside Ling Yi’s courtyard, but they left without speaking to him.
• Ling Yi fed his blood to a zombie outside the barrier and observed it grow stronger and change over the following half month.
• Bai Rushuang and her companions collected water and caught fish and shrimp from the river while maintaining their distance from Ling Yi.
• A convoy of fifty-seven people reached the barrier, cleared nearby zombies, and one man stared greedily at the crops inside.

Hong Shan and his armed men tried to seize Dafeng City, but Ling Yi killed them and continued researching zombie evolution. Over the next month and a half, Dafeng City grew to more than two thousand survivors, while Ling Yi’s main body confronted the system about an object it had produced.

• Hong Shan led his convoy into Dafeng City and threatened Bai Rushuang and the other women, but a golden flash killed Houzi and made their modern weapons disappear, so Hong Shan withdrew toward the woods.
• Hong Shan and his men found Ling Yi fishing and attacked him, and Ling Yi crushed them with a giant golden hand and turned their remains to ash.
• Bai Rushuang witnessed Ling Yi kill the attackers, while Ling Yi examined an evolving zombie and found a pale cyan crystal forming in its shrinking brain.
• Ling Yi created more evolving zombies and found that eating accelerated their crystal growth; after another month and a half, the zombies’ brains had been absorbed and the transformed creatures had greatly improved strength, speed, and reflexes.
• Ling Yi sent the evolved zombies to a planet in his personal small world to test whether they could survive there.
• Survivors flocked to Dafeng City until its population exceeded two thousand, and Ling Yi’s main body questioned the system about an object it had pulled out.

Ling Yi received the Body of Pangu bloodline, raising his physique to 0.8 Universe Grade, while his mental power lagged behind. In the simulation, Bai Rushuang established an administration for Dafeng City, and Ling Yi devised a way to resolve the clearance mission by sending evolving zombies to a remodeled Mars.

• The system rewarded Ling Yi with the Body of Pangu bloodline, boosting his physique to 0.8 Universe Grade and accelerating his potential growth.
• Bai Rushuang asked Ling Yi to become Dafeng City's mayor, but he refused and made clear he would not obstruct her plans to organize the city.
• Bai Rushuang became deputy city lord and assigned ten other women administrative duties, bringing rules and order to Dafeng City.
• Ling Yi tested zombies in his Personal Small World and found that they adapted to extreme environments, though unblooded zombies evolved more slowly and needed energy to sustain their changes.
• Ling Yi concluded he could send the zombies to Mars to restore humanity on Blue Star while allowing the zombie population to grow, and he planned to have his main body make Mars habitable.

While Ling Yi cultivated in the simulated zombie apocalypse, he gave Bai Rushuang a zombie crystal core that granted her powerful abilities. The chapter left Ling Yi confirming that the cores could pass on his Photosynthesis and Modeling abilities, while Dafeng City prepared to face stronger zombies beyond its barrier.

• Ye Chen and Xiao Lian cleared their missions by slaughtering zombies and finding a zombie-killing drug, while Ling Yi continued cultivating in the simulation.
• The authorities saw Ling Yi's clone cultivating on the sun and realized that Ling Yi was the original overflow data, so they abandoned plans to wake him.
• Ling Yi's strength rose to Universe Grade, and he gained the Pangu Axe and immortal arts as rewards from the Lying Flat System.
• Bai Rushuang and the other women discussed Dafeng City's growing population, dwindling farmland, and the danger of stronger zombies outside the barrier.
• Ling Yi gave Bai Rushuang a zombie crystal core and told her to adapt to its power before he lifted the barrier's entry and exit restrictions.
• Bai Rushuang swallowed the core and gained Photosynthesis and Modeling, confirming Ling Yi's discovery that his blood-born zombies could pass on his abilities through their cores.