Recaps

Ling Yi learned that Hongjun had helped the War Consciousness Avatar destroy Fantasy Worlds and prepare a formation to seize the real world's origin, but he defeated them and contracted both as Phantom Demons. Back in their original bodies on Red Maple Mountain, Ling Yi planned to receive Hongjun's inheritance and break the formation while he and Ye Ling'er prepared to switch bodies.

• Hongjun revealed that he had planned to take the Primordial World's origin and escape the Heavenly Dao, then joined the War Consciousness Avatar in destroying Fantasy Worlds and scheming to seize the real world's origin.
• Ling Yi put Hongjun and the War Consciousness Avatar into the Phantom Demon Space and said he would receive Hongjun's inheritance and break the sacrificial refinement formation.
• Duan De left on a mission to kill Thanos the Mad Titan, while Ling Yi and Ye Ling'er discussed how dangerous the mission and Hongjun had been.
• Ling Yi and Ye Ling'er returned to their original bodies in the dilapidated Daoist temple on Red Maple Mountain and found their Phantom Demons safely contained by the Red Maple Grand Formation.
• Ling Yi recalled his Phantom Demons into the Phantom Demon Space, and Ye Ling'er recalled hers.

Ling Yi inherited Hongjun’s power, altered the Fantasy Battlefield’s rules, and married Ye Ling'er before their sealed memories were restored. Back in the Ling Realm, Ye Ling'er revealed she was Yin Wanqing and decided to investigate details from her transmigrations as Ling Yi began another one.

• Ling Yi sent his contracted Phantom Demons to Ye Ling'er for protection, and they agreed to marry when she returned from the imperial capital.
• Ling Yi received Hongjun’s inheritance on the Fantasy Battlefield, became a Sage, and learned Hongjun’s plan to sacrifice the real world and Fantasy Worlds for the Power of Origin.
• Ling Yi took control of Hongjun’s sacrificial formation and changed the contract rules so Fantasy World protagonists had to consent after learning their worlds would collapse.
• Ling Yi and Ye Ling'er married and lived peacefully, while Duan De fought escaped villains and later married Yin Lingsu as the real world entered a new era of illusion martial arts.
• Ling Yi and Yin Wanqing returned to the Ling Realm with their memories restored, and Yin Wanqing said she would investigate details she had noticed during her transmigrations.
• Ling Yi activated the Infinite Passive Transmigration Aura and began a new transmigration.

Shen Qingyue learned that her Binding Sign-In System required her to bind Ling Yi, a supposedly low-aptitude menial disciple who was secretly a seventeen-year-old Great Heavenly Master. She decided to raise his favorability to avoid binding him through physical contact, and set out confident that winning his favor would be easy.

• Shen Qingyue worried that she would not reach Mid Foundation Establishment before the sect competition and asked her system about its binding target.
• The system revealed that the target was Ling Yi, a menial disciple with a low-grade Mortal Pin Five Elements Spiritual Root, and said the target could not be changed.
• Shen Qingyue learned that Ling Yi was a seventeen-year-old Great Heavenly Master at Perfection, a level comparable to Late Golden Core, and recognized his exceptional martial talent.
• The system told Shen Qingyue she could bind Ling Yi through ten breaths of physical contact or by raising his favorability to at least 60 points.
• Shen Qingyue chose to pursue Ling Yi's favorability, believing her looks and kindness would make it easy.

Mengli learned that her Binding Monster-Slaying Level-Up System had chosen Ling Yi as its target and set out to find him. Meng Jiaoyue grew suspicious and followed her daughter as she flew away from Tianshu Peak.

• Meng Jiaoyue scolded Mengli for recklessly taking a Yuan-Gathering Pill and warned her to improve before the sect competition.
• Mengli returned to her cave abode and asked her system about its newly appeared binding target.
• The system identified Ling Yi as an orphaned Menial Peak disciple whose hidden martial cultivation had reached the Great Heavenly Master realm.
• The system explained that Mengli could bind Ling Yi through ten breaths of physical contact or by raising his favorability to at least 60, then activated its navigation function.
• Mengli followed the golden arrow out of her cave abode on a flying sword, and Meng Jiaoyue pursued her after growing suspicious.

Ling Yi recalled how he had risen from an abandoned newborn to a Great Heavenly Master before joining the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, where his poor Spiritual Root left him unable to cultivate immortality. After working out a way to combine the Qi Refining Art with his martial cultivation, he woke to find Mengli in his bed, unable to explain why she had come.

• Ling Yi recalled that he had learned the Blood Demon Divine Art as an infant, destroyed the Blood Demonic Sect, and later spent years advancing his Martial Dao.
• Ling Yi joined the Ten Thousand Swords Sect but discovered that his poor Spiritual Root made immortal cultivation ineffective and that Spiritual Qi instead merged into his Blood Demon Gang Jin.
• Ling Yi secluded himself in his quarters to work out how to incorporate the Qi Refining Art into the Blood Demon Divine Art.
• Ling Yi woke the next morning to find Mengli asleep on top of him and lifted her off the bed.
• Mengli tried to tell Ling Yi why she had come, but a system warning stopped her from revealing it.

Mengli tried to explain why she had entered Ling Yi’s room, but the system prevented her from telling him the truth and his favorability kept dropping. She offered Spirit Stones to hire him as her bodyguard for a trip to the Hundred Thousand Mountains, and left to prepare for their departure the next day.

• Mengli introduced herself as the sect master’s daughter and claimed she had come to Ling Yi’s room to talk, but she could not explain the real reason.
• Mengli told Ling Yi she wanted him as a bodyguard and revealed that she knew his cultivation, making him wonder how she had learned about his past.
• After Ling Yi’s favorability dropped again, Mengli offered him twenty Spirit Stones, raising it to five, and promised to provide him with another storage ring later.
• Ling Yi agreed to protect Mengli on their trip to the Hundred Thousand Mountains, and she said they would leave the next day.
• Mengli left to prepare supplies and crossed paths with Shen Qingyue, who had also come looking for Ling Yi.

Shen Qingyue tried to raise Ling Yi’s favorability to activate her system, but her dismissive manner and overly familiar approach caused it to fall. After the system urged her to be sincere, she offered Ling Yi cultivation resources, and he accepted her as a friend, raising his favorability to 12.

• Shen Qingyue entered Ling Yi’s shabby courtyard, and his favorability dropped after she showed disgust at his home.
• Shen Qingyue tried to approach Ling Yi as someone from his supposed hometown, but his wariness caused his favorability to fall to 2.
• The system warned Shen Qingyue that Ling Yi’s favorability falling below zero would make it unbind, and advised her to act sincerely.
• Shen Qingyue introduced herself and said she wanted to be Ling Yi’s friend, and he told her that Spirit Stones and cultivation techniques would suffice.
• Shen Qingyue gave Ling Yi one hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones, Qi Gathering Pills, and the Ice Condensation Art, and he accepted her as a friend.
• Ling Yi’s favorability toward Shen Qingyue rose by 10 points to 12, leaving her wondering whether a friendship bought with Spirit Stones was genuine.

Shen Qingyue tried to activate her system by holding Ling Yi’s hand, while Ling Yi bargained for Spirit Stones or cultivation techniques. After learning that Mengli had also approached Ling Yi for a trial, Shen Qingyue’s system revealed that seven systems from the same batch existed in the world.

• Shen Qingyue decided to hold Ling Yi’s hand to try to activate her system, despite lacking the Spirit Stones needed to buy more favorability.
• Ling Yi questioned Shen Qingyue about why she wanted physical contact, then agreed in exchange for Spirit Stones or cultivation techniques.
• Shen Qingyue learned that Ling Yi planned to leave the sect with Mengli, even though menial disciples were normally forbidden from doing so.
• Ling Yi told Shen Qingyue that Mengli had visited him overnight, held his hand, and paid him to guard her during a trial.
• Shen Qingyue’s system said it could not confirm whether Mengli had a system, but revealed that seven systems from the same batch existed in the world.

Jiang Qingyue activated her Sign-In System through contact with Ling Yi, while Gao Lan also sought his help and gave him cultivation techniques. After Ling Yi studied Shen Qingyue’s technique and devised a way to detect intruders, sect master Meng Jiaoyue watched him and resolved to investigate his secret.

• Jiang Qingyue learned that Ling Yi’s favorability could improve her sign-in rewards, activated her system by holding his hand, and promised to bring him a cultivation technique the next morning.
• Gao Lan, the first personal disciple of Kaiyang Peak, gave Ling Yi four jade slips in exchange for a handshake and promised to protect him in the Ten Thousand Swords Sect.
• Ling Yi studied Shen Qingyue’s Ice Condensation Art and considered combining it with the Blood Demon Divine Art to develop a path of immortal martial arts.
• Ling Yi spread threads of blood-red energy through his house so he could sense anyone who entered while he was deducing techniques.
• Meng Jiaoyue recalled Mengli’s sudden breakthrough after spending the night with Ling Yi and grew more suspicious when Shen Qingyue and Gao Lan also sought him out.
• Meng Jiaoyue decided to investigate Ling Yi thoroughly.

Ling Yi and the three women traveled into the Centipede Forest to hunt a Golden Core centipede, while he tested his new understanding of Spirit Gang and sensed hidden protectors and a pursuer with killing intent. The group entered a miasma-shrouded area, alert for danger, as the hostile figure still waited to strike.

• Shen Qingyue explained that the group’s mission was to kill a Golden Core centipede in the forest north of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect.
• Gao Lan described how the sect had cleared most nearby demons, while Ling Yi sensed three hidden cultivators accompanying them.
• Ling Yi recalled that he had fused Spiritual Power with Gang Jin to create Spirit Gang and theorized that fusing Spiritual Sense into it could greatly amplify its power.
• Ling Yi identified the strongest hidden Aura as Meng Jiaoyue’s and detected killing intent from a Foundation Establishment cultivator following them.
• Gao Lan led the group into the miasma-filled Centipede Forest and warned everyone to watch their feet.

Gao Lan, Mengli, and Shen Qingyue fought a huge swarm of centipede demons in the Centipede Forest, and Ling Yi realized Gao Lan and Mengli had systems that rewarded them for killing enemies. As Gao Lan began breaking through to Golden Core, the swarm kept growing, leaving Mengli and Shen Qingyue struggling and calling on Ling Yi for help.

• Gao Lan charged into the centipede demons and killed them rapidly inside a field that slowed their movements, gaining cultivation from each kill.
• Shen Qingyue froze the demons with her flying sword while Mengli killed them with fire and gained experience points.
• Ling Yi suspected that Gao Lan and Mengli had different systems, while he received no benefit from joining the fight.
• Mengli gave Gao Lan and Shen Qingyue Spirit-Nurturing Pills, and Gao Lan's cultivation surged toward Golden Core.
• Gao Lan sat down to break through, while more than three hundred demons surrounded Mengli and Shen Qingyue as additional demons burrowed up from underground.
• Mengli asked Ling Yi anxiously whether he had any ideas.

Mengli traded cultivation techniques and gifts with Ling Yi, whose favorability fluctuated before rising enough to restore her monster-hunting bonuses. As Ling Yi bound the centipede demons and Mengli hunted them for experience, Shen Qingyue received two Realm Advancement Cards and wondered whether she could give them away.

• Mengli gave Ling Yi ten cultivation techniques, but he returned five duplicates and his favorability toward her fell.
• Mengli gave Ling Yi nine unique techniques, two bottles of Spirit-Nurturing Pills, and a spacious ring, raising his favorability to 18.
• Ling Yi used Spirit Gang to bind the centipede demons so Mengli could kill them and accumulate experience.
• Mengli chose to save her level-up and its experience rather than advance immediately.
• Shen Qingyue signed in for two Realm Advancement Cards and asked whether she could give them to someone else.

Shen Qingyue rejected the system’s advice to use an advancement card on Ling Yi, reasoning that his ruthless, suspicious past made honesty and mutual interests the only ways to bind him. Gao Lan broke through to Golden Core, then lost favorability with Ling Yi after celebrating wildly before joining Mengli to kill the swarming demons.

• Shen Qingyue explained that Ling Yi had survived years of schemes and wiped out sects and dynasties, so he would not casually trust or fall for someone.
• Shen Qingyue decided to be sincere with Ling Yi and rely on mutual interests rather than concealment or manipulation.
• Gao Lan broke through to Golden Core, but her loud celebration lowered Ling Yi’s favorability toward her by one point.
• Gao Lan expanded her Gravity Domain and joined Mengli in pinning down and killing the centipede lesser demons while Ling Yi and Shen Qingyue watched.
• Ling Yi asked about Gao Lan’s rivalry with Zhuang Yuerong, and Shen Qingyue explained that they both loved Zheng Chong and that cultivators sometimes date to manage inner demons.

Shen Qingyue shared powerful system rewards with Ling Yi, forming a partnership and increasing his favorability toward her. Meanwhile, Ling Yi’s favorability toward Mengli and Gao Lan fell, and Zhuang Yuerong became the newest system host after its sudden binding interrupted her cultivation.

• Shen Qingyue offered Ling Yi half her future benefits and gave him Realm Advancement Cards, raising his favorability and unlocking more daily check-ins.
• Shen Qingyue used her remaining check-ins to obtain more Realm Advancement Cards, Spirit Treasure Lottery Cards, and Advancement Cards, then gave Ling Yi half of them.
• Ling Yi used an Advancement Card to expand his spatial ring from 1,000 cubic meters to 10,000 cubic meters and agreed to a partnership with Shen Qingyue.
• Ling Yi’s favorability toward Mengli and Gao Lan each dropped by one, leaving both women puzzled as they continued grinding lesser demons.
• At Tianji Peak, Zhuang Yuerong received the Binding Check-In System while breaking through a bottleneck, and the interruption caused her Spiritual Power to reverse and injure her.

Zhuang Yuerong mistook the Binding Check-In System for a heart demon and learned that it would activate if she bound Ling Yi, a newly famous menial disciple. As she headed toward Centipede Forest to meet him, Ling Yi and his companions were surrounded by three Golden Core great centipede demons.

• Zhuang Yuerong argued with the system, which insisted it was not a heart demon and said it needed to bind Ling Yi to activate.
• Zhuang Yuerong worried that a heart demon could jeopardize her chance to become a core disciple in the upcoming sect competition.
• Zhuang Yuerong asked Zheng Chong to investigate Ling Yi, and he discovered that Ling Yi had trained with Gao Lan, Shen Qingyue, and Mengli.
• After receiving Zheng Chong's findings, Zhuang Yuerong decided to go meet Ling Yi and confront the source of her supposed heart demon.
• Three Golden Core great centipede demons surrounded Ling Yi, Gao Lan, Shen Qingyue, and Mengli, and Shen Qingyue asked Ling Yi for a plan.

Ling Yi used the Tai Chi Four Symbols Blood Formation to suppress three Golden Core centipede great demons and urged the others to escape. Shen Qingyue stayed, used system rewards to reach Golden Core Third Layer and master Ice Sword Intent, then killed one demon as Mengli and Gao Lan returned.

• Ling Yi summoned the Tai Chi Four Symbols Blood Formation, suppressing the three centipede great demons but leaving himself unable to move.
• Menglan, Mengli, and Gao Lan prepared to flee, but Shen Qingyue stayed because Ling Yi's death would cost her the system.
• Ling Yi's favorability toward Shen Qingyue rose to 82, and she spent her check-ins to obtain advancement, teleportation, and Ice Sword Intent rewards.
• Shen Qingyue used a Major Realm Advancement Card to reach Golden Core Third Layer and an Ice Sword Intent Great Accomplishment Experience Card.
• Shen Qingyue pierced and killed one of the centipede great demons with the Azure Frost Sword.
• Mengli and Gao Lan returned and appeared beside Ling Yi.

Ling Yi absorbed the demons’ Qi and Blood, explained his unusual cultivation, and pressed Shen Qingyue, Gao Lan, and Mengli to share the rewards from their systems. After the women agreed, he began a frank discussion about the secrets and restrictions surrounding their systems.

• Gao Lan and Mengli returned after their favorability scores fell when they fled, and they saw Shen Qingyue kill the three great demons.
• Ling Yi refined the lesser demons’ Qi and Blood and explained that his cultivation art could absorb the essence of any living creature.
• Ling Yi sarcastically reminded Gao Lan and Mengli that they had left him in danger, and Gao Lan asked what benefits he wanted.
• Shen Qingyue handed Ling Yi half of her system rewards, while Gao Lan and Mengli promised to give him half of everything they gained.
• Ling Yi began asking the women to speak openly about their secrets and the restrictions that kept them from discussing them.

Zhuang Yuerong discovered that Ling Yi was not her heart demon and activated her Check-In System through him, joining the group of system bearers. The group agreed to keep their systems secret and work together, then Zhuang Yuerong said she had something to do.

• Zhuang Yuerong arrived and was shocked to find Gao Lan, Shen Qingyue, and Mengli had all reached the Golden Core Realm.
• Ling Yi explained that the women’s rapid cultivation came from their systems, and Zhuang Yuerong hugged him for ten breaths to activate hers.
• Zhuang Yuerong received the Check-In System and the Wood Domain ability from its newbie gift pack.
• Ling Yi asked the women to keep their systems secret, offered them a Breath Concealment Technique, and proposed that they trust one another while sharing rewards only if they chose.
• Mengli noted that the lesser centipede demons had been killed, and Zhuang Yuerong raised her hand when Ling Yi asked whether anyone had something to do.

Ling Yi and his companions remained trapped in Centipede Forest because a hidden grand formation blocked their escape and messages to the sect, while Meng Jiaoyue had returned to the sect to enter seclusion. After four hours of deduction, Ling Yi created the Tai Chi Blood Soul Seal, used it to control centipede demons, and continued studying how to refine his method.

• Meng Jiaoyue returned to the sect to enter seclusion after gaining insight from Ling Yi’s Tai Chi Blood Formation, leaving the trapped group unlikely to receive help soon.
• Ling Yi finished developing the Tai Chi Blood Soul Seal from the Beast Taming Art and used it to take control of a centipede demon.
• Gao Lan sent five more centipede demons to Ling Yi, who used the seal to control all of them.
• Ling Yi passed a Qi and Blood cultivation method to six centipede demon pets and sent them back to Mengli and Gao Lan.
• Ling Yi sat down to continue deducing how to adapt the seal to different Demonic Beasts.

Gao Lan and Mengli watched Ling Yi’s centipede demons absorb Qi and Blood while Zhuang Yuerong and Shen Qingyue worried about his ability to create cultivation techniques. At the Beast Taming Palace, Nangong Wuji ordered Yunshu to investigate the Centipede Forest, revealing that she was a spy at Tianquan Peak who regretted betraying the Ten Thousand Swords Sect.

• Six centipede demons exposed their Demon Cores and absorbed Qi and Blood from the corpses, which Gao Lan and Mengli recognized as a refining method Ling Yi had likely taught them.
• Zhuang Yuerong and Shen Qingyue discussed the danger of Ling Yi creating cultivation techniques, while Zhuang Yuerong worried she would miss her check-in opportunities.
• Nangong Wuji reported the Centipede Forest’s exposure to the voice in the black statue and claimed he had activated the Demon Ancestor Grand Formation.
• Nangong Wuji secretly revealed his opposition to his father’s thousand-year plan, then ordered Yunshu to investigate the disturbance in the Centipede Forest.
• Yunshu, a ninth direct disciple of Tianquan Peak and a Beast Taming Palace spy, asked her system whether it could lift her curse because she did not want to betray the Ten Thousand Swords Sect.

Yunshu, a spy for the Beast Taming Palace and the fifth system owner in the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, learned that the Fishing System might remove the curse controlling her and went to Centipede Forest to find Ling Yi. She entered the activated formation and followed the trail of corpses and her butterfly demons toward him, while Ling Yi’s companions discussed their latest rewards.

• Yunshu revealed that Nangong Wuji had cursed her and sent her to spy on the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, and she hoped the Fishing System could free her.
• Yunshu suspected that Mengli, Gao Lan, Shen Qingyue, and Zhuang Yuerong also had systems tied to Ling Yi, and she worried that his return would bring trouble.
• Yunshu accepted a demon-slaying mission in the opposite direction from Centipede Forest, then secretly detoured toward it after leaving the sect.
• Yunshu entered the Ancestral Demon Grand Formation despite knowing that no one could leave, and sent her butterfly demons ahead as she followed the centipede corpses.
• Mengli shared jade slips, Spirit-Nurturing Pills, and three questionable Spirit Treasures with Gao Lan, Shen Qingyue, and the other women while Ling Yi studied the Tai Chi Blood Soul Seal.

Mengli shared sinister Spirit Treasures and duplicate cultivation techniques with the women, who negotiated trades for spirit spring and cultivation rewards. When Ling Yi awoke from studying the Tai Chi Soul Sealing Seal, he said he wanted to examine the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and Investiture of the Gods Scroll.

• Gao Lan wanted to trade a ten-year Cultivation Card for Mengli’s Bloodthirst Sword, but Mengli chose to wait until Ling Yi woke up before deciding how to distribute it.
• Mengli offered duplicate technique jade slips, and Shen Qingyue and Zhuang Yuerong took Blood Poison Technique slips while offering rewards in return.
• Zhuang Yuerong traded bottles of spirit spring to Gao Lan for a ten-year Cultivation Card and to Mengli for an Experience Card, while concealing that she possessed a spirit spring source and Wood Spirit Liquid.
• Shen Qingyue said she wanted to discuss the Investiture of the Gods Scroll after Ling Yi woke up, seeing it as a way to create an army of cultivators under her control.
• Ling Yi opened his eyes after deducing the Tai Chi Soul Sealing Seal and said he wanted to study the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and Investiture of the Gods Scroll, but had no use for the Bloodthirst Sword.

Ling Yi accepted cultivation resources from Mengli, Gao Lan, and Zhuang Yuerong, then began studying formations to find a way out of the grand formation. Zhuang Yuerong worried about being bound to Ling Yi by her system, and the group was joined by Yunshu, a personal disciple from Tianquan Peak.

• Mengli gave Ling Yi cultivation techniques, Spirit Treasures, and an experience card, while Gao Lan traded for the Bloodthirst Sword and gave Ling Yi a cultivation card.
• Zhuang Yuerong gave Ling Yi spirit spring water, raising his favorability toward her, and worried that her system would keep her bound to him.
• Ling Yi checked his six centipede demons, then rode one while he devoted himself to studying the formation.
• Gao Lan killed a butterfly demon, and the group realized it had been controlled by someone nearby.
• Yunshu arrived and greeted the group, prompting Zhuang Yuerong and Gao Lan to speculate about which disciples from the remaining peaks might join them.

Ling Yi learned that Murong Xi and Murong Yao were powerful twin cultivators whose rare Spiritual Roots made them difficult for the sect to let leave. Yunshu asked Ling Yi for help, and his Fishing System gave her control of the Ancestral Demon Blood Curse, leaving her ready to use it against Nangong Wuji.

• Zhuang Yuerong and the others identified Murong Xi and Murong Yao as formidable candidates, and Yunshu revealed their suspected Soul and Space Spiritual Roots.
• The group concluded the twins would be difficult to recruit because the sect would protect its valuable cultivators from rival factions.
• Yunshu approached Ling Yi and asked for his help, then took his hand when the system prompted her.
• Ling Yi's Fishing System activated and gave Yunshu the Curse Body, which let her master and control the Ancestral Demon Blood Curse.
• Yunshu thanked Ling Yi and asked whether she could now use the curse on Nangong Wuji.

Yunshu controlled the Ancestral Demon Blood Curse and tested her Binding Fishing System, which could fish through a portal linked to the heavens and Myriad Worlds. She gave Ling Yi the first reward, raising his favorability toward her to 55 and significantly improving her future fishing rewards.

• Yunshu learned she needed Nascent Soul Realm cultivation to curse Nangong Wuji and followed the system's advice to control, but not remove, the Ancestral Demon Blood Curse.
• Yunshu revealed her Binding Fishing System to the others and summoned a crude fishing rod that opened a black hole in the air.
• Yunshu explained that fishing rewards depended partly on Ling Yi's favorability toward her, and she cast her line after asking what he liked best.
• Yunshu fished up a jade slip containing the Divine Treatise on Artifact Refining, while Gao Lan tossed a centipede demon's corpse into the black hole before it closed.
• Yunshu gave the jade slip to Ling Yi, raising his favorability toward her by 50 points to 55 and increasing her fishing rewards.