Recaps

Ling Yi turned down Shen Mengmeng’s offer to take him into a Ninth Tier Literary World and decided to become a Writer instead. He began copying The Ethereal Journey, then saw that Lü Xiong had returned from a Literary World with a battle power reward.

• Shen Mengmeng told Ling Yi that she had declared him under her protection and invited him to her home to farm a Literary World.
• Ling Yi refused Shen Mengmeng’s offer because he planned to become a Writer and wanted to avoid relying on her.
• Ling Yi told Shen Mengmeng he would write to prepare for the Writer assessment, then returned home after they parted.
• Ling Yi chose The Ethereal Journey for its detailed worldbuilding and wrote more than nine thousand Chinese characters that afternoon.
• Ling Yi checked his Realm Walker interface and saw that the Literary World list was empty.
• At 9:30, Ling Yi saw that Lü Xiong had exited the Fifth Tier Literary World Divine Doctor Descends the Mountain: I'm the Villain! with one point of battle power, and Lü Xiong then entered another Literary World.

Ling Yi used his talent to forcibly collect Lü Xiong’s gains, raising his own Battle Power while making Lü Xiong lose a point. He decided to hide his ability, gather more bound targets, and write The Ethereal Journey as a cover for his growing strength.

• Ling Yi collected his first gain entry and felt his Battle Power rise from 1 to 2 while Lü Xiong remained in a Literary World.
• Ling Yi used Forced Collection on Lü Xiong’s uncollected gains, but Lü Xiong’s Battle Power did not increase, leaving him confused and frustrated.
• Lü Xiong reentered a Tier 4 Literary World, and after leaving it at five in the morning, discovered that his Battle Power had fallen from 9 to 8.
• Ling Yi’s Battle Power rose to 3, and he realized Forced Collection could deduct a target’s Battle Power when their gains fell short of one point.
• Ling Yi resolved to conceal his talent, keep his Battle Power below 10 for now, and write The Ethereal Journey to explain his future strength.

Ling Yi concealed his increase in Battle Power from Shen Mengmeng, whose protection of him drew the attention of people interested in her. Worried about threats from powerful families, he considered how to bind more tool people and asked Shen Mengmeng to punch him to test his talent.

• Shen Mengmeng noticed Ling Yi had grown stronger, and he claimed he had gained two Battle Power in the Literary World.
• Gao Qi confronted Ling Yi, but Shen Mengmeng defended him and warned the class not to bully him.
• Ling Yi realized his closeness to Shen Mengmeng could put him in danger and resolved to find more people to bind.
• Gao Qi secretly called several young masters to report Ling Yi and Shen Mengmeng's interaction.
• Ling Yi recalled that his talent had reacted after Lü Xiong accidentally attacked him, so he asked Shen Mengmeng to punch him as a test.

Ling Yi tested the conditions for his binding talent and discovered that it could detect people who harbored malice toward him and bore past sins. Shen Mengmeng took him to a private training room, where he concealed his talent and explained away his growing Battle Power with a fabricated account of a zombie-filled Literary World.

• Shen Mengmeng punched Ling Yi at his request, but his talent did not react, so he reconsidered what conditions triggered binding.
• At the training room, Ling Yi's talent detected Guo Chao and Liu Ruoming, and he bound both men despite their not attacking him.
• Ling Yi recognized Guo Chao and Liu Ruoming as Shen Mengmeng's suitors and recalled that both had committed serious crimes, leading him to suspect that sin and malice were the binding conditions.
• Shen Mengmeng led Ling Yi into a private training room and showed him its reinforced facilities and training equipment.
• Ling Yi showed Shen Mengmeng his visible World Walker stats, and she learned that he had gained two Battle Power overnight.
• Ling Yi told Shen Mengmeng that he had gained strength by killing zombies and devouring their crystal cores in a Literary World.

Ling Yi pushed his body to its limit on a treadmill and unexpectedly increased his Battle Power from 3 to 4. Shen Mengmeng was stunned because World Walkers were believed to be unable to raise Battle Power through exercise.

• Shen Mengmeng explained that World Walkers had to train their bodies to adapt to Battle Power and develop combat awareness through fighting.
• Ling Yi kept running beyond the recommended limit because he enjoyed the feeling, and Shen Mengmeng noticed his speed rise from 7 to 8 meters per second.
• Ling Yi continued running as he grew tired, hoping to break through his physical limit, while Shen Mengmeng warned him to stop.
• Ling Yi flashed with golden light, accelerated to 10 meters per second, and confirmed on his World Walker Interface that his Battle Power had risen from 3 to 4.
• Shen Mengmeng insisted that exercise could no longer increase Battle Power after the Literary Dao Purple Light appeared, leaving her unable to explain Ling Yi's breakthrough.

Ling Yi discovered that he could modify his Worlder level and raise his Battle Power outside the Literary World, a secret that could draw dangerous attention. After Shen Mengmeng warned him about the Purple Light Lookout, Ling Yi decided to keep training and use his binding talent to grow stronger, inviting her to his home with the aim of binding more targets.

• Shen Mengmeng explained that Worlders normally could not increase their Battle Power in the real world and warned Ling Yi to conceal his unusual ability.
• Ling Yi found that his Worlder level and Battle Power were modifiable, but agreed to avoid training until after the college entrance examination to keep the change hidden.
• Shen Mengmeng suspected Ling Yi had a talent and warned him that the Purple Light Lookout hunted talented Worlders to extract their abilities.
• Worried about the dangers surrounding him and Shen Mengmeng, Ling Yi resolved to rapidly raise his Battle Power through training and his binding talent.
• Ling Yi thanked Shen Mengmeng and invited her to his home for a meal, intending to bind more targets.

Ling Yi discovered that his talent had bound dozens of people hostile to him, including several powerful World Walkers, as rivals pursued him because of Shen Mengmeng. After dinner at his home, Shen Mengmeng asked whether he would become her boyfriend so she could openly arrange to protect him.

• Ling Yi accepted bindings for Zhao Yunzhi, Qin Feng, Bai Yuntian, and Lü Hanwen, whose Battle Power made him fear for his safety.
• As Ling Yi walked home, he accepted more bindings until his list contained 52 targets, while seven people from factions seeking Shen Mengmeng or protecting her secretly followed him.
• Ling Yi realized that his talent could bind targets without seeing them or having them nearby, a condition he had misunderstood.
• Shen Mengmeng arrived at Ling Yi's home, shared dinner with him, and stayed as the hour for entering the Literary World approached.
• Shen Mengmeng asked Ling Yi to become her boyfriend so she could openly arrange ongoing protection for him, and Ling Yi considered her proposal.

Ling Yi accepted Shen Mengmeng’s proposal to announce their relationship in exchange for protection and support, then spent the night writing while she entered a Literary World. By morning, he collected his bound targets’ earnings and rose from Battle Power 4 to 182, reaching Tier 2.

• Shen Mengmeng explained why she wanted to be with Ling Yi and offered him three years of protection and financial support.
• Ling Yi accepted Shen Mengmeng’s offer, and she decided to stay the night to signal their relationship to her family.
• Shen Mengmeng entered her authorized Ninth Tier Literary World, while Ling Yi declined her offer to ask her grandfather for an authorization slot.
• Ling Yi wrote more than 40,000 characters overnight as Shen Mengmeng stayed in the Literary World until morning.
• Ling Yi collected Battle Power earnings from all 52 bound targets, gaining 178 points and reaching Battle Power 182 and Tier 2.

Ling Yi explained how Literary World settlement rewards depended on a World Walker’s starting strength, assigned identity, and chosen world, while hiding his true tier and Battle Power. Shen Mengmeng discussed the possible existence of tiers above the Ninth, and Ling Yi considered leaving school to train at home as his power grew rapidly.

• Ling Yi reached 182 Battle Power and set the public display on his interface to 5 while keeping his World Walker tier hidden.
• Ling Yi asked Shen Mengmeng why the college entrance exam’s Ninth Tier Literary World could host hundreds of thousands of examinees, and she explained how powerful World Walkers or special talents could bypass the usual authorization limit.
• Shen Mengmeng said people suspected tiers existed above the Ninth, but no Writer had created a Tenth Tier Literary World for a ten-star-potential World Walker to enter.
• Ling Yi showed Shen Mengmeng his interface, and she saw that he had gained another Battle Power point overnight.
• Shen Mengmeng suggested Ling Yi stop going to school and train at home, and Ling Yi agreed that it made sense given how quickly his Battle Power could rise.

Ling Yi moved in with Shen Mengmeng and tested his second golden finger in her spacious apartment. His run triggered a new Divine Ability and activated a new World Walker Interface function, leaving him to discover what the new entry could do.

• Ling Yi acknowledged that he could not conceal his rapid growth or forced talent binding from the Shen Family and decided to keep the latter secret.
• Shen Mengmeng offered Ling Yi her large apartment, and he agreed to move there with her as her boyfriend.
• As Ling Yi and Shen Mengmeng left hand in hand, his interface detected twenty-six bindable targets, including Shen Wenwu and Shen Wenshan, whose contrasting strength and potential made him wary of the Shen Family.
• Shen Mengmeng brought Ling Yi to her 1,700-square-meter apartment, where he began running on a treadmill to test his second golden finger.
• After Ling Yi ran for ten minutes, the interface announced that he had surpassed his Speed Limit, comprehended Wind Breaking, activated the Divine Ability module, and gained a new function entry.

Ling Yi discovered that his Wind Breaking Divine Ability let him move without air resistance, then tested different exercises while considering his plan to create Literary Worlds from remembered webnovels. While practicing Tai Chi Fist, he became excited and developed an unusual rhythm that did not disturb the air, leaving Shen Mengmeng wondering what he had done.

• Ling Yi examined his Wind Breaking Divine Ability and realized it could become especially powerful by letting him move at full speed without air resistance or noise.
• Ling Yi showed Shen Mengmeng that his displayed Battle Power had risen to six, then said he had reached his limit for the day.
• Shen Mengmeng explained that university students received a monthly chance to enter a Ninth-Tier Literary World, while Ling Yi considered becoming a Writer and recreating webnovels from his clearer memories.
• Ling Yi found that running had given him the Wind Breaking ability, while other exercises had produced no results, and he began practicing Tai Chi Fist as a final test.
• Ling Yi's Tai Chi Fist developed a strange rhythm, and even his fast movements stirred no air, prompting Shen Mengmeng to ask how he had done it.

Ling Yi comprehended Tai Chi Divine Gang and learned that Divine Abilities came from drawing out Might, while he and Shen Mengmeng avoided discussing the secret around others. After an awkward afternoon together, Shen Mengmeng explained how Writers were certified and revealed that Ninth Tier Literary Worlds received automatic approval from the Heavenly Dao Purple Light.

• Ling Yi practiced Tai Chi Fist and comprehended Tai Chi Jin, which evolved into Tai Chi Divine Gang.
• Ling Yi realized that Divine Abilities formed from Might and agreed to explain the method to Shen Mengmeng later, when they could speak safely.
• Ling Yi discovered that Tai Chi Divine Gang created a domain that strengthened him and suppressed opponents who had not comprehended Might.
• Ling Yi and Shen Mengmeng read The Ethereal Journey together, and Ling Yi left the room to regain his composure when their closeness affected him.
• Shen Mengmeng told Ling Yi that the Literary Dao Purple Light certified Writers and automatically approved completed Ninth Tier Literary Worlds.

Shen Mengmeng explained why Ling Yi should keep his potential Ninth Tier Writer status secret, and Ling Yi began typing his novel on her computer. After Shen Mengmeng briefly entered a Literary World and returned, Ling Yi revealed that his Air Breaking Divine Ability could be cultivated, trusting her to keep it secret.

• Shen Mengmeng told Ling Yi that Ninth Tier Writers retained their novels’ plot memories and could control access to their Literary Worlds, and warned him not to register with the World Inspection Bureau.
• Ling Yi agreed to keep his Writer status hidden and began typing The Ethereal Journey on Shen Mengmeng’s computer, working much faster than on his phone.
• When Shen Mengmeng entered a Literary World that evening, the World Walker presences watching Ling Yi disappeared.
• Shen Mengmeng returned after settling her gains, raising her Battle Power to 13, and asked Ling Yi about his ability to move without disturbing the air.
• Ling Yi explained that Air Breaking was a cultivable Divine Ability, and Shen Mengmeng promised not to tell anyone.

Ling Yi taught Shen Mengmeng how to sense Battle Power and comprehend Might while concealing his ability to harvest Battle Power from people watching him. Shen Mengmeng eventually mastered Might, and Ling Yi gained new Divine Abilities through training as he kept his own strength hidden.

• Ling Yi explained Battle Power Cells and guided Shen Mengmeng through sensing her Battle Power, but she failed to comprehend Might during her first attempt.
• Ling Yi collected Battle Power from the people watching him, raising his own Battle Power while resolving to keep a lower profile.
• Over the next week, Shen Mengmeng practiced comprehending Might while Ling Yi trained and wrote The Ethereal.
• Shen Mengmeng comprehended Might on the third day and learned to release it smoothly after several days of practice.
• On September 2, Ling Yi checked his World Walker Interface and saw his increased Battle Power and newly comprehended Divine Abilities.

After Ling Yi’s power and number of tool people rose, he and Shen Mengmeng attended the National Prosperity Day sports meet, where their hand-in-hand arrival drew attention. Ling Yi learned how the Literary Dao Purple Light balanced fighters’ Battle Power for the challenge tournament and anticipated that students would challenge him.

• Ling Yi reached more than two thousand Battle Power and had 102 tool people, while Shen Mengmeng comprehended the Voice Transmission Divine Ability.
• Ling Yi and Shen Mengmeng went to school for the National Prosperity Day sports meet and entered the gates hand in hand, provoking envy and prompting Ling Yi to bind targets along the way.
• Ling Yi watched the sports meet’s events and found them predictable because Battle Power determined the results.
• Shen Mengmeng explained that Purple Light Stones let teachers set arena rules through the Literary Dao Purple Light, which equalized both fighters to the weaker World Walker’s Battle Power.
• Shen Mengmeng warned Ling Yi that many students might challenge him, and he agreed to take them on.

Ling Yi worried that the Literary Dao Purple Light would expose the Battle Power hidden by his World Walker Interface, but the assessment displayed only 6. When Lü Xiong challenged him, Ling Yi accepted and prepared to fight.

• Ling Yi considered whether the Literary Dao Purple Light could reveal his true Battle Power, which exceeded 2,600, and decided to test it onstage.
• Lü Xiong challenged Ling Yi at the start of the competition, and Ling Yi accepted.
• The Literary Dao Purple Light displayed both contestants’ World Walker Interfaces, showing Ling Yi with 6 Battle Power and Lü Xiong with 8.
• Ling Yi and Lü Xiong traded insults, and Ling Yi asked why Lü Xiong’s Battle Power had fallen from 9.
• The assessment balanced their Battle Power at 6, leaving Ling Yi relieved that his true strength remained hidden.
• Lü Xiong charged at Ling Yi after Ling Yi taunted him to begin.

Ling Yi defeated a series of challengers with Illusory Steps, catching the attention of Shen Mengmeng’s cousin, Su Ruoxue. Su Ruoxue offered him a Bai Hai University admission slot and battle-team place if he could beat her, but Ling Yi defeated her in one move.

• Ling Yi knocked Lü Xiong down and invited more students to challenge him.
• Shen Mengmeng’s cousin Su Ruoxue praised Ling Yi’s combat awareness and offered to help him gain admission to Bai Hai University if he met her standards.
• Ling Yi used Illusory Steps to defeat seven challengers in a row, leaving the crowd unwilling to face him.
• Su Ruoxue entered the arena, introduced herself as Shen Mengmeng’s older cousin, and promised Ling Yi a guaranteed admission slot and a place on Bai Hai University’s Second Battle Team if he beat her.
• After Battle Power was balanced to 6, Su Ruoxue attacked with Butterfly Steps, but Ling Yi’s figure split in two and she fell facedown.

After Ling Yi defeated Su Ruoxue under the Literary Dao Balance Rule, she deduced that he was hiding his strength and proposed a deal. The chapter left Ling Yi facing Su Ruoxue’s questions while two men plotted to kill him the next morning.

• Ling Yi defeated Su Ruoxue in a challenge where the Balance Rule reduced their Battle Power to six, and she insisted they talk at home.
• Ling Yi sensed hostile Third Tier presences, while two men agreed to attack him after he emerged from the Literary World the next morning and arranged for someone to delay Su Ruoxue.
• Su Ruoxue confronted Ling Yi at the apartment, saying she had recognized his hidden strength and that he was the only World Walker to fool the Literary Dao Purple Light.
• Ling Yi joked about silencing Su Ruoxue and refused her proposed deal by claiming he would not sell his body.
• Shen Mengmeng recalled how Ling Yi had changed after his transmigration and noted that he was writing The Ethereal, which could become a Ninth Tier Literary World.

Su Ruoxue offered Ling Yi a place on her team and at Bai Hai University, but he refused and gave her only limited information about his and Shen Mengmeng’s movement technique. After Su Ruoxue tried to question Shen Mengmeng, Ling Yi prepared to write The Ethereal and create his own Ninth Tier Literary World.

• Su Ruoxue explained team formation, the Literary Dao Tower, and gave Ling Yi a Purple Light Stone ring while recruiting him to her team.
• Shen Mengmeng demonstrated a movement technique that shocked Su Ruoxue, then avoided revealing more about it.
• Ling Yi refused Su Ruoxue’s offer and left for the training room, while Shen Mengmeng kept her questions at bay.
• Ling Yi monitored the women through his Tai Chi Divine Gang Domain Field and revealed that he had told Shen Mengmeng what to say to test Su Ruoxue.
• At eight in the evening, Su Ruoxue and Shen Mengmeng entered the Literary World while Ling Yi planned to finish writing The Ethereal.

Ling Yi completed The Ethereal and created the first Tenth Tier Literary World, earning control and powerful tools to sell access and claim a share of visitors’ rewards. He configured its entry and settlement rules, entered the world, and left Shen Mengmeng and Su Ruoxue reacting to its appearance.

• Ling Yi finished The Ethereal, and the novel disappeared as it generated into the Tenth Tier Ethereal Literary World.
• Ling Yi received control of the world and rewards that let him sell unlimited authorization slots, take a share of settlements, and set visitor rules.
• Ling Yi configured sales mode, a 30% revenue share, mandatory settlement every three days, and up to three resurrections per visitor.
• Ling Yi entered the Ethereal Literary World to experience it, while Shen Mengmeng returned and discovered it was a Tenth Tier world.
• Su Ruoxue appeared behind Shen Mengmeng and asked what Tenth Tier Literary World she was talking about.

Ling Yi left The Ethereal Literary World without gains, then collected rewards that raised his Battle Power above two hundred million and advanced him to the Eighth Tier. Two hostile World Walkers were targeting him, but Blue Star capped the Battle Power he could exert at ten million.

• Su Ruoxue noticed The Ethereal Literary World on Shen Mengmeng's interface, suspected Ling Yi was connected to it, and bought an access slot before Shen Mengmeng followed her in.
• Ling Yi forced a settlement in The Ethereal Literary World because his ordinary job on Earth gave him no way to reach the Cultivation Realm.
• Ling Yi found Su Ruoxue and Shen Mengmeng among the World Walkers in the rewards list, along with Ninth Tier World Walkers Qian Wu and Ling Fei, each with over a billion Battle Power.
• Ling Yi sensed two Third Tier World Walkers locking onto him with killing intent and chose to collect his rewards before confronting them.
• Ling Yi gained 234,225,866 Battle Power, reached the Eighth Tier, and learned that Blue Star limited the Battle Power he could exert to ten million.

Ling Yi killed two World Walkers sent by Jiang Nianchen and learned that the Literary Dao Purple Light could enforce confidentiality contracts. The chapter ended with Su Ruoxue asking Ling Yi what Might was.

• Ling Yi discovered that he could fly by using Might and that World Walkers' Battle Power was restricted on Blue Star.
• Ling Yi killed two World Walkers who planned to assassinate him and learned they had been sent by Jiang Nianchen of the Jiang Family of Baihai City.
• Ling Yi reflected that the Jiang Family might retaliate after losing two Third Tier World Walkers.
• At five in the morning, Shen Mengmeng and Su Ruoxue returned from the Literary World, and Shen Mengmeng excitedly told Ling Yi she had met Li Qiang.
• Su Ruoxue used her Purple Light Stone ring to propose a confidentiality contract with Ling Yi, and they agreed that revealing his secrets would transfer all her Battle Power to him.
• Su Ruoxue asked Ling Yi what Might was.

Su Ruoxue signed a Literary Dao Contract with Ling Yi to keep the secret of Might and join his future battle team, then asked Shen Mengmeng to teach her how to comprehend it. Meanwhile, Jiang Nianchen arrived in Dafeng City, learned that the Shen Family had noticed Ling Yi, and decided to visit him.

• Su Ruoxue contracted with Ling Yi to keep Might secret until someone else revealed it and to join his battle team if he formed one.
• Ling Yi explained that the Literary Dao Purple Light could conceal their conversation and protect high-tier Writers, and Su Ruoxue described several benefits Writers above the Sixth Tier received.
• Ling Yi asked Shen Mengmeng to teach Su Ruoxue how to comprehend Might in the training room.
• Jiang Nianchen arrived in Dafeng City and learned that Ling Yi's talent and growing closeness to Shen Mengmeng could disrupt the Jiang Family's plans.
• Jiang Nianchen learned that Baldy and Bald Spot had disappeared and concluded that the Shen Family had taken action.
• Jiang Nianchen decided to visit Ling Yi.

After Shen Mengmeng signed a Literary Dao Contract to keep Ling Yi’s secrets, he promised to teach her and Su Ruoxue how to fly with Might. As Ling Yi and Su Ruoxue chatted on their way to the training room, Shen Mengmeng felt like a third wheel, while news of the Tenth Tier Ethereal Literary World drew mixed reactions online.

• Shen Mengmeng was discouraged after Su Ruoxue learned Might and Illusory Steps far faster than she had.
• Shen Mengmeng offered Ling Yi a Literary Dao Contract to protect his secrets, and Ling Yi accepted it.
• Ling Yi taught Shen Mengmeng and Su Ruoxue that they could use Might to fly once they reached the required level and Battle Power.
• Ling Yi told the women to conceal his involvement if they revealed their new abilities, and Su Ruoxue joked that he was Shen Mengmeng’s pretty boy.
• Ling Yi and Su Ruoxue talked about his past as they headed for the training room, leaving Shen Mengmeng to wonder whether she was a third wheel.
• News of the Tenth Tier Ethereal Literary World caused an online uproar, with criticism outweighing praise because many World Walkers gained little from entering it.

Shen Xinian and Shen Yunchen discussed the Ethereal Literary World's opportunities and the danger of its Writer gaining enormous Battle Power from authorized slots. Shen Xinian ordered the Shen Family to buy slots and planned to have Shen Mengmeng bring Ling Yi home after the college entrance exam.

• Over ten thousand World Walkers entered the Ethereal Literary World through authorized slots, and many complained online after failing to find cultivators or gain rewards.
• Shen Yunchen told Shen Xinian that the Ethereal Literary World offered ways to grow stronger through its plot, vast realms, resurrection chances, and accelerated time.
• Shen Xinian argued that the Writer could gain immense Battle Power from slot purchases and ordered everyone in the Shen Family to buy an authorized slot.
• Shen Yunchen admitted Ling Yi had a secret, and Shen Xinian told him to have Shen Mengmeng bring Ling Yi home after the college entrance exam.
• Shen Yunchen reported Jiang Nianchen's arrival in Dafeng City, and Shen Xinian ordered the family to watch him until the Literary Dao Tower was cleared.