Recaps

Ling Yi battled an undead beast horde, encountered a silent undead girl, and continued toward Mount Zhongnan while the crisis in Dayandu eased under Shen Yingying’s blood-food supply. At Wang Chongyang’s tomb, the girl suddenly began teaching You Shishi the Northern Darkness Divine Art.

• Ling Yi filled drone-suspended bottles with mysterious blood, attracting hundreds of undead beasts that he destroyed with his undead flames.
• A silent girl appeared in Ling Yi’s car, drank the mysterious blood, and began cultivating as Ling Yi took her and You Shishi toward Mount Zhongnan.
• Shen Yingying used Ling Yi’s blood-food shipments to stabilize Dayandu, while Ling Yi explained that he planned to find powerful undead and build a chain of undead supermarkets.
• Ling Yi reached Wang Chongyang’s tomb at Mount Zhongnan, smashed open its stone door, and entered alone.
• The silent girl pressed You Shishi to the ground and announced that she would impart the Northern Darkness Divine Art.

Ling Yi revived Wang Chongyang and the Seven Masters of Quanzhen in the tomb, then explained the undead calamity and urged them to help end it. Zhang Sanfeng also revived among them, leaving Ling Yi with another legendary martial artist to enlist.

• Ling Yi found Wang Chongyang's decayed remains in the tomb and filled his coffin with mysterious blood, allowing him to recover and revive as an undead.
• Wang Chongyang attacked Ling Yi in confusion, then recognized his junior brother and listened as Ling Yi explained the passage of centuries and the undead calamity.
• Eight more skeletons arrived and revived through the blood in Wang Chongyang's coffin; Ling Yi left to fetch clothes for them.
• Ling Yi returned with protective clothing and recognized the revived figures as the Seven Masters of Quanzhen, who welcomed Wang Chongyang and hoped to restore their sect.
• Ling Yi told the group that undead needed human blood and could turn living creatures into undead, then identified the white-bearded survivor as Zhang Sanfeng.

After learning that Gusu City had fallen to three resurrected undead martial artists, Ling Yi gathered Wang Chongyang, Zhang Sanfeng, and the Seven Masters of Quanzhen to respond while You Shishi stayed behind with Wu Xingyun. The group reached the outskirts of Gusu City, where Ling Yi revealed that Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü had killed Shen Yingying in Dayandu.

• You Shishi told Ling Yi that Gusu City had fallen, and Ling Yi arranged for an attack helicopter to take him and the resurrected masters there.
• Ling Yi gave Wu Xingyun mysterious blood and asked her to protect You Shishi, who left with Wu Xingyun to train.
• Ling Jiu reported that the undead had overrun Gusu City and that three masked undead martial artists were leading them; Ling Yi reconsidered his plan to eliminate all undead.
• Murong Fu and Murong Bo planned an undead breakout, while Murong Longcheng doubted their hopes of ruling the world and secretly devoured imprisoned undead for their soul beads.
• Ling Yi’s group landed outside Gusu City, where he showed Wang Chongyang a video revealing that Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü had killed Shen Yingying in Dayandu.

Ling Yi concluded that the undead threatened all life and rushed to stop their assault on the military outside Gusu City. After clearing the battlefield with Undead Fire, he entered the city while Wang Chongyang and the others prepared to intercept undead emerging through a sewage outlet.

• Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü devoured soul beads in Dayandu until military incendiary bombs set the city ablaze.
• Ling Yi decided the undead could not be allowed to persist, while the undead army began attacking the human defenses near Gusu City.
• Ling Jiu revealed that military leaders hesitated to use powerful weapons because their children were undead, and that other undead planned to attack through an underground drainage system.
• Ling Yi sent Wang Chongyang and the others to intercept the flank attack, then charged into the battlefield and burned through the undead with Undead Fire.
• Wang Chongyang's group reached the sewage outlet and prepared the Heavenly Big Dipper Formation as Ma Yu and the others heard undead approaching.

Wang Er joined Wang Chongyang and the others to fight undead and rapidly leveled up through shared party experience, while Ling Yi slaughtered millions across Gusu City. After meeting Wang Er, Ling Yi made his system copy the mage’s skills for himself and the others, then learned that something had happened in Dayandu.

• Wang Er arrived at the drainage outlet, invited Wang Chongyang and the others to party up, and they accepted after Ling Jiu confirmed the invitation was safe.
• Wang Chongyang and the others fought undead emerging from the outlet, while Wang Er gained experience and rose to level 19 with several mage skills.
• Ling Yi lured undead beneath a streetlamp with mysterious blood and killed them with Undead Fire as Murong Bo, Murong Fu, and Murong Longcheng discussed waiting for the fighters to weaken.
• After sunrise, Ling Yi met Wang Er, revealed he had killed over six million undead, and had Wang Er’s system copy its skills for him and the others.
• Ling Jiu reported that something had happened in Dayandu.

Ling Yi arrived in Dayandu as Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü fought to the death, then found Zhang Wuji living in isolation and feeding on sheep to resist the urge to prey on humans. Zhang Wuji recounted Zhao Min’s tragic fate, leaving Ling Yi uncertain whether to kill him.

• Ling Yi teleported to Dayandu and found Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü battling in demonic madness.
• Ling Yi discovered that a video and its comments had helped trigger their rage, and watched them burn to ash in the sunlight.
• Ling Yi followed a passing shadow to a valley, where Zhang Wuji revealed that he had survived for half a year by feeding on sheep.
• Zhang Wuji explained that feeding on living humans made undead lose control, and said he had killed Wei Xiaobao after learning the location of buried treasure.
• Zhang Wuji told Ling Yi how Zhu Yuanzhang had abducted Zhao Min and had her buried alive, while Ling Yi wondered whether to kill him.

Ling Yi learned from Zhang Wuji that the Nine Yin Manual, Nine Yang Manual, and Huang Shang might hold clues to the undead resurrection, then joined Wang Er and the others in clearing Gusu City. He left to pursue the system’s coordinates after Murong Bo and Murong Fu were reduced to ash and the Sweeper Monk was trapped in his flames.

• Zhang Wuji told Ling Yi that historical records about Huang Shang and the Nine Yin Manual contradicted what he had witnessed, and he suspected the Nine Yin and Nine Yang manuals shared an unknown origin.
• Ling Yi copied both manuals, thanked Zhang Wuji, and returned to Gusu City, where he proposed finding Huang Shang and asked Wang Er to consult his system about the resurrection’s source.
• Wang Er received a stationary coordinate marker, while Ling Yi and the others spent the night using mysterious blood as bait to kill undead across Gusu City.
• As the undead dwindled, Wang Er spotted Murong Longcheng, Murong Bo, and Murong Fu fleeing, and Ling Yi teleported to their location.
• Murong Bo and Murong Fu burst into ash, while the Sweeper Monk was caught in flames; Ling Yi appeared and attacked him with a deep-blue fireball.

Ling Yi found Mount Kunlun’s hidden secret realm, destroyed its source of Death Qi, and discovered the Demon Suppression Bureau and a jade slip. After three days, he emerged to face Xiaoyaozi, who explained his plan to revive martial artists and demanded a fight.

• Ling Yi copied Daoist and Warrior skills, teleported to Mount Kunlun, and broke through a formation into the secret realm.
• Ling Yi ignited the dense Undead Power, exposing a ruined complex marked with a Demon Suppression Bureau plaque, and found a jade slip.
• As Death Qi faded across the world, undead martial artists weakened, while Wang Er’s potions helped Wang Chongyang and others transform into true humans.
• Three days later, Ling Yi left the secret realm and encountered Xiaoyaozi, who admitted to modifying cultivation techniques to preserve souls and revive martial artists.
• Xiaoyaozi confessed that he had planned to purify Death Qi and strengthen himself with soul beads, then blamed Ling Yi for ruining his plan.

Ling Yi questioned his role as a protagonist until Yin Wanqing advised him to gather the fortune of characters from different worlds by bringing them into the Ling Realm. After sending Xiaoyaozi there and guiding the martial heroes to a new world, Ling Yi set off on another journey between worlds.

• Ling Yi called Yin Wanqing, confessed that he felt directionless, and restrained Xiaoyaozi while they spoke.
• Yin Wanqing advised Ling Yi to gather fortune by capturing characters with fortune and bringing them into the Ling Realm, then urged him to finish each world's story properly.
• Ling Yi released Xiaoyaozi from his restraints and sent him to the Ling Realm.
• Ling Yi returned to You Shishi's home, told the undead martial heroes about a cultivation-friendly new world, and invited them to explore it.
• The next day, Ling Yi opened a passage and sent the martial heroes to a primitive planet in the Ling Realm, then departed on another journey between worlds.

Ling Yi, inhabiting the body of an orphaned child in Anyuan Village, was discovered to have perfect spiritual roots and traveled with Guan Kuo and Yun Feng to the Heaven and Earth Sect. The chapter ended as the elders prepared to test Ling Yi and Yun Feng before assigning them to mentors.

• Ling Yi regained his awareness while playing with village children and recognized Guan Kuo, a returning Heaven and Earth Sect cultivator.
• Guan Kuo tested Ling Yi with a rune-covered stone, discovered his perfect spiritual roots, and decided to bring him to the sect despite his apparent disability.
• Guan Kuo left Anyuan Village with Ling Yi and Yun Feng, explaining the importance of Sword Souls and the Immortal Ascension Platform along the way.
• The group reached Heaven and Earth City, where Ling Yi observed the Heaven and Earth Sect's influence and its system for recruiting children.
• Guan Kuo brought Ling Yi and Yun Feng to the elders' pavilion, where a young female elder signaled for them to take a final aptitude test.

Yun Feng revealed a rare lightning-element sword soul and became Grand Elder Xian Yu’s disciple, while Ling Yi concealed his true aptitude and was chosen by Li Mengyun. At her residence, Li Mengyun tested Ling Yi’s strength, recognized that he had taken over a body, and learned that he called himself Ling Yi.

• Yun Feng’s test revealed a lightning-element sword soul, and Elder Xian Yu used pressure to make him choose Xian Yu as his master.
• Ling Yi pretended to be dim-witted and showed an ordinary result on the testing stone, but Li Mengyun noticed his hidden cleverness and chose him as her disciple.
• Guan Kuo told Li Mengyun that Ling Yi’s aptitude had exceeded the testing stone’s limit and was at least perfect-grade.
• Li Mengyun asked whether Ling Yi had seized his body, then attacked him with her sword; Ling Yi stopped every strike with one finger.
• Ling Yi stayed silent through Li Mengyun’s questions about his former identity, then finally told her his name.

Ling Yi attended the Heaven and Earth Sect’s test for newly admitted disciples and discovered that Yun Feng was a reincarnated expert with his memories and power sealed. After Ling Yi easily sent the testing pillar to its third mark, Fourth Elder Yun Yi unleashed an oppressive force against him.

• Guan Kuo left Li Mengyun’s room with part of his memories erased and went to claim a reward for discovering Yun Feng’s lightning-type sword soul.
• Ling Yi stayed with Li Mengyun for a month, while cultivating the merged law called “One”; Li Mengyun advanced to the middle Golden Core realm by cultivating near him.
• Li Mengyun brought Ling Yi to the disciples’ test, where he examined Yun Feng and found a powerful sword soul sealed alongside Yun Feng’s memories and cultivation.
• The sect master arrived, and Ling Yi noticed the man had secretly reached the Nascent Soul Stage and appeared to have stolen sword souls from others.
• Yun Feng barely passed the test, while Ling Yi gently flicked the pillar and sent its reading to the third mark.
• Fourth Elder Yun Yi mocked Li Mengyun for spending resources on Ling Yi, then directed an oppressive force at Ling Yi, who grinned at him.

Ling Yi and Li Mengyun left the Heaven and Earth Sect for the Ancient Demon Forest, where the Heaven-Breaking Divine Sword was rumored to have appeared. They watched as Feng Hong and Lan Rui pursued Yun Feng, whose escape Ling Yi quietly helped, and followed the group toward the forest.

• Ling Yi used an unseen method to make Elder Yun Yi pass gas in public, prompting the elders and disciples to flee while the sect master ordered an investigation and assigned shadow guards to watch Ling Yi and Li Mengyun.
• Over the next ten years, Ling Yi stayed in his quarters while Li Mengyun advanced to the late Nascent Soul Stage.
• Li Mengyun told Ling Yi that Wang Chong had departed for the Ancient Demon Forest, where the Heaven-Breaking Divine Sword had been sighted, and Ling Yi agreed to go with her.
• Ling Yi and Li Mengyun found Feng Hong and Lan Rui pursuing Yun Feng to capture his lightning sword soul for Wang Chong.
• An unseen pressure weakened Feng Hong and Lan Rui's flying swords, allowing Yun Feng to escape, and Ling Yi flew after the pursuers with Li Mengyun.

Ling Yi and Li Mengyun reached the Ancient Demon Forest, where tens of thousands of cultivators gathered to claim the Heaven-Breaking Divine Sword. As Hou Wanxiong proposed ways to decide who would take it, Yun Feng challenged his plan, and Hou Wanxiong forced the crowd toward his first proposal.

• Ling Yi and Li Mengyun disguised themselves in black robes and followed the cultivators toward the mountain containing the Heaven-Breaking Divine Sword.
• Hou Wanxiong addressed the crowd and proposed that cultivators either try to draw the sword or compete in an elimination arena.
• Ling Yi explained that Hou Wanxiong could use controlled matchups to eliminate powerful rivals, while Li Mengyun considered exposing him.
• Yun Feng objected to Hou Wanxiong's arena proposal, prompting many cultivators to join his protest.
• Hou Wanxiong revealed his Spirit Severing cultivation and demanded that the crowd accept the first proposal.

Yun Feng drew the Heaven-Breaking Divine Sword, and Hou Wanxiong and the other powerhouses left after marking him. A veiled woman abducted Yun Feng as nearly ten thousand cultivators pursued them, but a Spirit Explosion Formation Plate detonated ahead and halted Ling Yi and Li Mengyun.

• Hou Wanxiong forced cultivators to enter the Divine Sword Cave in turn and vanished one who argued, while Ling Yi sent cultivators who left into the Ling Realm.
• Yun Feng entered the cave and easily drew the Heaven-Breaking Divine Sword, which seemed to recognize him as its master.
• Hou Wanxiong and the other powerhouses left after placing marks on Yun Feng, and Ling Yi and Li Mengyun teleported out of the cave.
• A veiled late spirit severing stage woman grabbed Yun Feng and flew away, prompting nearly ten thousand cultivators to chase them.
• Ling Yi and Li Mengyun followed the crowd until a Spirit Explosion Formation Plate detonated ahead and its blast forced them to stop.

Ling Yi survived the Spirit Explosion Formation, parted from Li Mengyun, and returned to the Heaven and Earth Sect, where he learned that Wang Chong was secretly resisting the god who controlled him. Wang Chong sent a call to arms against the Immortal Ascension Platform, and Ling Yi read his memories, discovering how the sect master had turned against the gods.

• Ling Yi escaped the explosion with Yun Feng and the gravely wounded mysterious woman, then sent a clone to follow Yun Feng and handle any branching plotlines.
• Ling Yi gave Li Mengyun a Ling Realm Mark before returning to the Heaven and Earth Sect, while she stayed in the Ancient Demon Forest to seek cultivation supplies.
• Ling Yi met Guan Kuo, who was leaving for a dangerous mission in the Mist Swamp, and encouraged him before returning to Li Mengyun's residence.
• Wang Chong returned to the sect and was bound and tortured by a white-robed man for disobeying orders to gather Sword Soul cultivators for the Immortal Ascension Platform.
• Wang Chong sent hundreds of voice transmission talismans calling others to destroy the Immortal Ascension Platform, and they all agreed.
• Ling Yi read Wang Chong's memories and learned that the sect master had discovered the gods were using the platform to steal Sword Souls and had begun devouring them to fight back.

Ling Yi understood that the so-called gods had sealed the cultivation world with the Immortal Ascension Platforms and that Wang Chong and other villains planned to destroy them. Half a month earlier, Yun Feng nearly died crossing a desert before Qiao Li revealed the gods’ scheme and her own history as a Sword Soul-devouring villain.

• Ling Yi concluded that the Immortal Ascension Platforms formed a Heaven-Locking Grand Formation and that Wang Chong’s group intended to destroy the platforms with Spirit Explosion Formation Discs.
• Yun Feng carried the mysterious woman across the desert until he collapsed after hearing bells from a nearby hunting party.
• Yun Feng woke in a tent during the Eye of the Black Wind and learned from the woman that the hunting party sought Chaos Spirit Stones formed at the storm’s center.
• The woman introduced herself as Qiao Li, the sect master of the Nine Li Sect, and explained how the gods used the Immortal Ascension Platforms to block ascension and rule the cultivation world.
• Qiao Li admitted that she had devoured many gifted cultivators’ Sword Souls and recounted her ruthless past and failed attempt to condense a Five Elements Sword Soul.

Yun Feng learned that Qiao Li was helping oppose the gods and trained with her support to recover his memories and prepare to condense the Five Elements Sword Soul. As Qian Province’s Immortal Ascension Platform neared, Wang Chong and Ling Yi made their own preparations, and Yun Feng finished his training with only three days left to act.

• Qiao Li told Yun Feng that she planned to destroy the Immortal Ascension Platform and believed he was the reincarnated Sword God, while Yun Feng remained wary of her.
• After the Eye of the Black Wind ended, Qiao Li heard Wang Chong’s call to oppose the gods, bought Chaos Spirit Stones, and took Yun Feng to the Ancient Demon Forest to cultivate.
• Wang Chong traveled to Lei Province to recruit allies, while three years passed and Qian Province prepared for the Immortal Ascension Platform’s arrival.
• Wang Chong made Li Mengyun the Heaven and Earth Sect’s sect master, and Ling Yi told her he would leave after the Immortal Ascension Platform plot.
• Yun Feng recovered his memories and told Qiao Li he could condense the Five Elements Sword Soul within three days, while Qiao Li worried whether there was enough time.

Thirty-two sect masters climbed the heavenly stairway and sacrificed themselves trying to destroy the Immortal Ascension Platform, exposing a god’s plan to feed on Sword Souls. Yun Feng arrived with a Five Elements Sword Soul and declared he would shatter heaven, though he admitted he could not defeat the god directly.

• Thirty-two sect masters blocked the heavenly stairway with Spirit Explosion Formation Plates and began climbing toward the Immortal Ascension Platform.
• The sect masters endured escalating lightning for three days, while Ling Yi revealed that the black Annihilation Lightning was destroying their primordial spirits.
• A silver-haired god appeared and called the cultivators ants, then admitted that he had reserved their Sword Souls as nourishment.
• The thirty-two sect masters burned their Sword Souls, reached the platform, and detonated their Spirit Explosion Formation Plates, but the platform quickly repaired itself and all thirty-two died.
• The cultivators united in anger as the silver-haired god demanded their reverence, and Yun Feng arrived with a Five Elements Sword Soul.
• Yun Feng told the god he could not defeat him directly but could shatter heaven.

Yun Feng shattered the heavens, triggering the ascension of tens of thousands of cultivators, while Ling Yi rescued the survivors into the Ling Realm. After reflecting with Yin Wanqing on the world he had witnessed, Ling Yi entered a new world as a delivery driver and discovered a flamboyant self-proclaimed superhero.

• Yun Feng broke the heavens with his Five Elements Sword Soul, and Qiao Li took the white-haired young man's attack in his place before Yun Feng and the young man vanished in their final clash.
• Tens of thousands of Mahayana cultivators began ascending, and the white-haired young man was destroyed by the force descending through his receiving passage.
• Ling Yi sent Li Mengyun into the Ling Realm, where she reunited with Yun Feng, Qiao Li, Wang Chong, and the others who had survived there.
• Ling Yi told Yin Wanqing he had chosen to observe the world rather than alter its story, while Yin Wanqing continued investigating the effects of plot karma.
• Ling Yi entered a new world as a drowned delivery driver, corrected the record of his overdue delivery, and watched a video of the superhero A Jian rescuing a falling boy.

Ling Yi watched Lu Yun be framed and ruined, then removed his murderous Dark Necromancer System and replaced it with one that rewarded punishing evil and promoting good. When Lu Yun chose to publish his evidence, Ling Yi took control of the world’s servers to help him expose the truth.

• Principal Li fired Lu Yun, denied his claim that he had evidence, and secretly accepted two million from Gao Bang.
• Gao Bang sued Lu Yun on behalf of Gao Yuanyuan and the four other girls, and Lu Yun was ordered to pay nearly two hundred thousand in compensation.
• Lu Yun’s Dark Necromancer System activated and ordered him to kill Gao Bang and the five girls, threatening to erase him if he failed.
• Ling Yi crushed the original system and gave Lu Yun a replacement that removed compulsory missions and awarded experience for punishing evil and promoting good.
• Lu Yun decided to publish his evidence against Gao Bang and the girls, so Ling Yi took control of the world’s servers to help him expose them.

Ling Yi and Yin Wanqing discussed their exhaustion and the obstacles to Boundary Breaking before Ling Yi entered a new world. There, he met Ye Feng, whose flawed Strongest Mage System required him to invent real magic in a world without it.

• Yin Wanqing explained that Ling Yi and the author were bound to keep traversing and writing, while the Ling Realm lacked enough providence for Boundary Breaking.
• Yin Wanqing suggested that readers might resist Ling Yi breaking through, and Ling Yi said he would give readers golden fingers if he succeeded.
• Yin Wanqing consulted the World Traversal Radar, kissed Ling Yi, and kept her new idea secret to avoid alerting the author.
• Ling Yi arrived in New City and discovered his roommate Ye Feng was trying to activate the Strongest Mage System by inventing a spell.
• Ling Yi explained traditional and technological magic, but Ye Feng rejected technological magic and chose to search for a way to create real magic.

Ye Feng researched brain waves to find a way to create magic, then built a brain-signal reader and proposed selling learning helmets. As Ye Feng pursued a theory of mental power, Ling Yi experimented with Magic Factors and finally forced the exhausted Ye Feng to sleep.

• Ye Feng asked Ling Yi how mental power could be understood, and Ling Yi suggested studying brain waves instead of souls.
• Ye Feng borrowed money from Ling Yi, claimed his Strongest Magician system gave him a photographic memory, and recited a book to prove it.
• Ye Feng spent heavily on research and built a helmet that could read and record brain signals, while Ling Yi advised him to control and price the knowledge the device could teach.
• Ling Yi offered to handle a company to sell the learning helmets as Ye Feng continued collecting data.
• Ling Yi experimented with Magic Factors and considered other ways to create magic, while Ye Feng divided bioelectric signals into hardware and magnetic field commands.
• Ye Feng proposed amplifying the brain's magnetic-field abilities to strengthen mental power, but Ling Yi snapped his fingers and put the exhausted Ye Feng to sleep.

Ye Feng developed magnetic field control and mind control, then prepared to create magical elements by simulating a Big Bang in a vast underground laboratory. Ling Yi left him to work and discovered a little girl who created and randomly dispatched systems, then told her to come with him after sensing her otherworldly presence.

• Ye Feng signed Ling Yi's company contract, and Ling Yi launched the Ling Ten assistant while waiting for Ye Feng's products.
• Ye Feng gained magnetic field control and mind control, then explained his dangerous plan to create magical elements through a simulated singularity Big Bang.
• Ling Yi flew Ye Feng to a desert laboratory powered by a small nuclear plant, where Ye Feng began preparing his work.
• Ling Yi vanished from the base and found a little girl generating a God Grade Insult System to send into another world.
• The little girl admitted she made and randomly dispatched systems without knowing why, and Ling Yi sensed her otherworldly presence and told her to come with him.

Ling Yi took in Ling Mengmeng, a world-born girl whose fortune came from future worlds, and severed her bond with the world’s rules. Meanwhile, Ye Feng’s black-hole experiment produced a spreading wave of colored light and mistlike energy, leaving the birth of magic underway.

• Ling Yi named the little girl Ling Mengmeng, and Yin Wanqing recognized that fortune from many future worlds was gathering on her.
• Ling Yi and Yin Wanqing concluded that Mengmeng’s strange fortune pointed toward Boundary Breaking, and Yin Wanqing agreed to collect her when Ling Yi left the world.
• Ling Yi severed Mengmeng’s karmic connection to the world, freeing her from its rules, and took her to eat pork trotter rice.
• Ye Feng created a small black hole in his laboratory, which saturated and collapsed into a singularity sooner than expected.
• Ling Yi and Mengmeng arrived as the singularity burst into seven-colored light, and Ye Feng’s experiment began producing colorful, mistlike energy.