Recaps

Ling Yi rejected the system’s demand to raise Zhao Mingyue’s affection under threat of erasure and challenged it to self-destruct. After the system’s self-destruct attempt failed, it restarted as the Strongest Brother and Sister System, leaving the Zhao Mingyue mission without a deadline or penalty.

• Ling Yi followed Zhao Mingyue to her luxurious office, where she asked him to tear up their marriage contract at a banquet in three days.
• The system ordered Ling Yi to raise Zhao Mingyue’s affection to 50 points within three days or be erased, and Ling Yi rejected the mission.
• Ling Yi repeatedly ordered the system to self-destruct, and the system’s countdown stalled before it could finish.
• The system declared the mission failed, but its self-destruct attempt failed when an unknown force invaded and collapsed its core program.
• The system restarted as the Strongest Brother and Sister System, offering rewards for raising Zhao Mingyue’s affection with no time limit or failure penalty.

Ling Yi rejected Zhao Mingyue’s offer to end their engagement quietly and decided to focus on growing stronger instead. He agreed to tear up the marriage contract at the wedding banquet in three days, leaving Zhao Mingyue uneasy about what he had said regarding her family and the inheritance struggle.

• After the system went silent and time resumed, Zhao Mingyue offered Ling Yi a million to call off their engagement, and he accepted.
• Ling Yi recalled that the Shenron Pavilion had given him six months to marry Zhao Mingyue while concealing his identity or face a contest for the Dragon King position.
• Ling Yi told Zhao Mingyue he would tear up the marriage contract at the banquet in three days, but refused her money and criticized her for wanting him to take the blame.
• Ling Yi suggested Zhao Mingyue’s grandfather had allowed her family to mistreat him because their actions could later affect the Zhao siblings’ inheritance struggle.
• After Ling Yi left, Zhao Mingyue remembered how she and her family had treated him and felt unsettled by his coldness and warning.

Ling Yi quit his unpaid security job, broke Song San’s wrist, and used the Dragon King Token to request the creation of Phoenix Pavilion. He planned to send its members to infiltrate Mysterious Yin Sect, while preparing to sever his ties with Zhao Mingyue and the Zhao Family.

• Ling Yi quit his security job at Mingyue Building and broke Song San’s wrist after Song San tried to stop him.
• Ling Yi used Acupoint Sealing to intensify Song San’s pain and warned that he would become a vegetable and die.
• Ling Yi called his master and used the Dragon King Token to request the creation of Phoenix Pavilion, with at least a thousand cultivators gathered in Dafeng City by the next day.
• Ling Yi told his master that Phoenix Pavilion would infiltrate Mysterious Yin Sect, and his master agreed to arrange it by the following afternoon.
• Ling Yi told his master that he had been manipulated into pursuing Zhao Mingyue and vowed to make Mysterious Yin Sect pay.

Ling Yi prepared to confront Gu Mingxuan, who was expected to kidnap Zhao Mingyue that night, and brought Su Ying to the Red Maple Hotel. He began revealing that the Dragon King Hall had kept the truth about her parents secret.

• Ling Yi accepted the system's mission to rescue Zhao Mingyue and requested five billion in liquid capital from Su Ying.
• Ling Yi arranged to access the encrypted file D-225 and went to the Red Maple Hotel, where Gu Mingxuan was expected to awaken as a villain protagonist.
• Ling Yi bypassed two security guards before returning to the hotel with Su Ying, whose code name was Shadow.
• Ling Yi told Su Ying that her parents' identities were among the Dragon King Hall's highest-level secrets, making her uneasy.

Ling Yi revealed that Su Ying’s parents had been spies, then comforted her and made her his sworn younger sister, boosting his Battle Power. He left her to establish Phoenix Pavilion and confronted Gu Mingxuan as Gu arrived at the Red Maple Grand Hotel carrying an unconscious Zhao Mingyue.

• Ling Yi showed Su Ying evidence that her parents had spied for the enemy and nearly stolen national research data.
• Ling Yi comforted Su Ying, who called him Brother Ling Yi and cried in his arms.
• The system bound Su Ying as Ling Yi’s younger sister, raised his Battle Power by 630 points, and increased Su Ying’s cultivation speed.
• Ling Yi named Su Ying the master of Phoenix Pavilion and left to deal with Zhao Mingyue’s situation.
• Ling Yi saw Gu Mingxuan enter the hotel carrying the unconscious Zhao Mingyue, followed by the Black and White Twin Fiends, and began recording them.

Gu Mingxuan carried the unconscious Zhao Mingyue to a hotel room and died after taking three powerful tonic pills, where Ling Yi found him. Ling Yi noticed the timing suggested Gu Mingxuan had died and been revived through Soul Transmigration, then learned that Su Ying’s breakthrough had sent him more cultivation.

• Gu Mingxuan took Zhao Mingyue to the Red Maple Hotel, intending to assault her and use recordings to force the Zhao Family to accept their marriage.
• Gu Mingxuan tied Zhao Mingyue up and swallowed three pills from Black Fiend, then collapsed and died when the tonic overwhelmed his weakened body.
• Ling Yi entered the twelfth-floor suite through the balcony and confirmed that Gu Mingxuan was dead.
• Ling Yi picked up the medicine bottle and reasoned that Gu Mingxuan had died hours earlier before another Gu Mingxuan used Soul Transmigration to revive him.
• The system announced that Su Ying had reached Innate Great Perfection and sent Ling Yi ninety percent of her cultivation, increasing his Battle Power by 270 points.

Ling Yi broke through to the Master Realm and discovered that Gu Mingxuan’s Protagonist Karmic Luck prevented him from killing him. After Gu Mingxuan revived and Zhao Mingyue awoke, Ling Yi freed her and showed her that he was a Master Martial Practitioner.

• Ling Yi broke through to the Master Realm, reaching 19,000 Battle Power.
• Gu Mingxuan revived as his second playthrough began, and Ling Yi failed twice to kill him when an uncanny force dispersed his True Yuan.
• The system assigned Ling Yi a mission to kill Gu Mingxuan, explaining that Gu Mingxuan had to lose his Protagonist Karmic Luck first.
• Zhao Mingyue woke up, mistook Ling Yi for her captor, and questioned his claim that he had saved her.
• Ling Yi knocked Gu Mingxuan unconscious, sent Zhao Mingyue a video, freed her with a True Yuan blade, and demonstrated his Master-level power.

Ling Yi revealed to Zhao Mingyue that he was a Master and had secretly protected the Zhao Family, then left her with evidence that he had saved her from Gu Mingxuan. Back at the hotel, Ling Yi completed two missions and drew the Luck Observation Technique and the Heavenly Secret Pendant.

• Zhao Mingyue asked why Ling Yi had hidden that he was a Master, and Ling Yi explained his engagement and the help he had given the Zhao Family.
• Ling Yi leapt from the window and used True Yuan to reach the roof of the building opposite before disappearing.
• Zhao Mingyue watched Ling Yi's video proving Gu Mingxuan had taken her to the hotel, then stomped Gu Mingxuan unconscious when he woke.
• Ling Yi returned to the Red Maple Hotel and found Su Ying cultivating in his room.
• The system reported that Zhao Mingyue's favorability had risen to 60 and that Ling Yi had completed two missions.
• Ling Yi used two lottery draws to obtain the Luck Observation Technique and the Heavenly Secret Pendant.

Zhao Mingyue began questioning how she and the Zhao Family had treated Ling Yi, while Zhao Tianche’s attempt to arrange a marriage alliance with the Gu Family threatened to backfire. Ling Yi let Xuanming reveal his and Su Ying’s identities to the Zhao Family and ordered him to start an entertainment company for making short dramas.

• Zhao Mingyue defended Ling Yi to Zhao Tianche, then reflected on how Ling Yi had secretly protected her and the Zhao Family while they had mistreated him.
• Zhao Tianche learned that Gu Mingxuan had been badly injured and crippled at the Red Maple Hotel, and feared the Gu Family would retaliate against the Zhao Family.
• Zhao Tianche ordered a detailed investigation into Ling Yi and the woman with him after learning Ling Yi had stayed at the hotel with someone.
• Xuanming told Ling Yi that Zhao Tianche was investigating him and Su Ying, and Ling Yi said their information no longer needed to be concealed.
• Ling Yi ordered Xuanming to start an entertainment company so he could make short dramas.

Ling Yi’s idea of filming a short drama triggered three long-term system missions, while Zhao Tianche punished Zhao Jiancheng for mistreating Ling Yi and turned his attention to Zhao Mingyue. Ling Yi then learned that his master had gathered a thousand elites who would arrive in Dafeng City that afternoon.

• Ling Yi considered filming the Dragon King plot and received the Control the Plot, The Female Leads’ Affection, and I’m the Protagonist missions.
• Zhao Jiancheng came downstairs, and Zhao Tianche ordered the bodyguards to force him to kneel.
• Zhao Tianche struck Zhao Jiancheng, blamed him for humiliating Ling Yi, and expelled him from the Zhao Family.
• Zhao Tianche decided that Zhao Mingyue was the key to calming Ling Yi’s anger, and she came downstairs.
• Ling Yi’s master called to say that a thousand elites would arrive in Dafeng City that afternoon.

Ling Yi organized the creation of Phoenix Pavilion and Shenron Investment Company, then explained that Zhao Mingyue’s Nine Yin Bloodline and the hidden sects’ dwindling Spiritual Qi were behind his plans. He left Su Ying and Xuanming with orders as he revealed why the hidden sects had been entering the world.

• Ling Yi asked Su Ying to call him brother and assigned her and Xuanming tasks for establishing Phoenix Pavilion and Shenron Investment Company.
• Xuanming proposed the Mingyue Building as Phoenix Pavilion’s headquarters, and Ling Yi agreed to acquire it from the Zhao Family.
• Ling Yi ordered them to buy him a house, then claimed his six months as the Zhao Family’s live-in son-in-law had been a mission.
• Ling Yi said Zhao Mingyue’s Nine Yin Bloodline was ideal for the Mysterious Yin Sect’s cultivation technique and learned that Su Ying had fought one of its disciples.
• Ling Yi explained that the Mysterious Yin Sect’s Spiritual Qi was drying up, as were the hidden abodes of other hidden sects, prompting their frequent entry into the world.

Ling Yi prepared the Phoenix Pavilion for the hidden sects’ entry into the secular world and decided to expose the plot by filming a series of short dramas. After spending his Plot Points on scripts, he learned Zhao Mingyue wanted to meet him as part of a deal to sell the Mingyue Building.

• Ling Yi explained that the Mysterious Yin Sect’s move into the secular world was approaching and said the Phoenix Pavilion was meant to counter it.
• Ling Yi reviewed his system missions and decided to disrupt the transmigrated villains by revealing the plot through a short drama.
• Ling Yi exchanged Plot Points for scripts centered on himself and the transmigrated villains, then discovered the planned series involved twelve villains and 108 heroines.
• Ling Yi used his remaining Plot Points to obtain five more scripts, leaving him with nine books and no Plot Points.
• Xuanming called Ling Yi and reported that Zhao Mingyue would sell the Mingyue Building if she could meet him.

Ling Yi met Zhao Mingyue and Zhao Wanru at Sincere Dining House, where Zhao Wanru defended him and revealed her suspicions about the Zhao Family. Ling Yi made Zhao Wanru his little sister and gained a cultivation bonus, then Zhao Mingyue apologized as she faced the harm she had caused him.

• Zhao Wanru told Zhao Mingyue that Ling Yi was the Dragon King and warned that their grandfather and Zhao Jiancheng were conspiring to control the Zhao Family.
• Ling Yi entered the private room, and Zhao Mingyue and Zhao Wanru's affection for him increased when they saw how handsome he looked.
• Ling Yi promised Zhao Wanru a gift, then said he would tear up his marriage agreement with Zhao Mingyue and asked Zhao Wanru to call him big brother.
• Zhao Wanru accepted Ling Yi as her big brother, meeting the system's binding conditions and giving him a 1.3-times cultivation bonus.
• Ling Yi asked Zhao Mingyue why she had called him there, and she apologized while regretting how she had treated him.

Ling Yi rejected Zhao Mingyue’s offer to buy the Mingyue Building, then revealed that the Dragon King Hall planned to establish the Phoenix Pavilion to deal with reclusive sects. Huo Qingyue’s arrival brought Ling Yi’s collection of all twelve scripts to completion, and his first draw granted him the Qi Ingestion divine ability.

• Ling Yi told Zhao Mingyue and Zhao Wanru that he would abandon romance and focus on cultivation, while Zhao Wanru embraced him and both women’s favorability increased.
• Ling Yi refused to accept the Mingyue Building as a gift, insisting that the Dragon King Hall would purchase it, but Zhao Mingyue said her family was willing to give it to him.
• Ling Yi told Zhao Mingyue that the Dragon King Hall planned to establish the Phoenix Pavilion, a women-only force intended to deal with reclusive sects.
• Huo Qingyue, the owner of Sincere Dining House and heroine of Invincible God of Cookery, entered the private room, and her favorability toward Ling Yi increased.
• Ling Yi spent three Plot Points to collect the remaining three scripts, completing his set of twelve, then used ten Plot Points to draw the Qi Ingestion divine ability.

Ling Yi learned the effects and limits of his new Qi Ingestion Divine Ability while dining at the Sincere Dining House, where he invited Huo Qingyue and the Zhao sisters to join his planned Phoenix Pavilion. Zhao Mingyue accepted Ling Yi as her brother, triggering her addition to his system list and revealing her cultivation bonus and Nine Yin Bloodline.

• Ling Yi learned that Qi Ingestion could enhance food’s taste and grant cultivation, comprehension, or aptitude benefits, with each type limited by his Battle Power.
• Huo Qingyue introduced herself to Ling Yi, served him a meal, and gave him her business card before he asked her to stay.
• Ling Yi invited Huo Qingyue, Zhao Wanru, and Zhao Mingyue to join the all-women Phoenix Pavilion under the Dragon King Hall.
• Ling Yi praised Zhao Wanru’s cultivation talent, then Zhao Wanru suggested that Zhao Mingyue become his little sister so he could address her as Mingyue.
• Ling Yi said Zhao Mingyue would never acknowledge him as her brother, but she called him “Brother,” activating the system and adding her to its list with 80 favorability and a 0.8-times cultivation speed bonus.

Ling Yi explained Zhao Mingyue’s extraordinary Nine Yin Bloodline and recruited her into the Phoenix Pavilion. Huo Qingyue initially refused to join, but after Ling Yi enhanced her boiled cabbage with Food Qi and showed her its effects, she agreed to join so she could learn it.

• Ling Yi explained the Mortal Eight Realms and Immortal Fourth Realm, then told Zhao Mingyue her Nine Yin Bloodline could lead her to the Immortal Venerable Realm and possibly the Immortal Emperor Realm.
• Zhao Mingyue agreed to join the Phoenix Pavilion as an ordinary member while she cultivated and proved herself.
• Huo Qingyue declined Ling Yi’s invitation because she cared more about cooking than the Martial Dao and did not want to fight the hidden sects.
• Ling Yi added Food Qi to Huo Qingyue’s boiled cabbage, and she discovered that the dish’s broth had changed and her cultivation speed doubled after tasting it.
• Huo Qingyue agreed to join the Phoenix Pavilion after Ling Yi guaranteed she could learn Food Qi.

Gu Mingxuan recovered with his system and planned to undermine Ling Yi by targeting the women around him, but learned that Ling Yi’s identity as the Dragon King was already widely known. Meanwhile, Ling Yi founded the Phoenix Pavilion in the Mingyue Building and appointed Su Ying as its pavilion master.

• Gu Mingxuan used the Great Rejuvenation Pill to heal himself and reach Innate Realm Great Perfection, then planned to suppress Ling Yi for Villain Points.
• Gu Mingxuan learned from White Fiend that Ling Yi was the master of the Dragon King Hall and that the Zhao sisters had recently spent time with him.
• Gu Mingxuan abandoned his plan to threaten the Zhao Family and considered winning over Su Ying, Lin Miaoyin, and Jiang Hong instead.
• Zhao Mingyue prepared the Mingyue Building’s upper floors to serve as the Phoenix Pavilion’s headquarters as Shenron Pavilion’s thousand women arrived in Dafeng City.
• Ling Yi founded the Phoenix Pavilion, appointed Su Ying as pavilion master, introduced Zhao Mingyue, Zhao Wanru, and Huo Qingyue, and ordered the members to call him Big Brother.

Ling Yi used his Plot Points to acquire powerful cultivation resources and announced that the Phoenix Pavilion would train to confront the hidden sects. He assigned Huo Qingyue to turn the Mingyue Building into the Phoenix Pavilion and adapt twelve novels into short dramas.

• Ling Yi spent all 245 Plot Points on a lottery, gaining cultivation techniques, an array plate, and Spirit Stones.
• Ling Yi told the Phoenix Pavilion members that hidden sects would enter the secular world and ordered them to reach the Master Realm within six months.
• Ling Yi demonstrated his overwhelming pressure, then sent cultivation techniques to Su Ying to distribute among the members.
• Ling Yi asked Zhao Mingyue and Huo Qingyue to meet him in Zhao Mingyue's office, where Zhao Mingyue's Affection reached 100.
• Ling Yi instructed Huo Qingyue to rename and renovate the Mingyue Building as the Phoenix Pavilion and adapt twelve novels into short dramas.

Ling Yi gave Zhao Mingyue twelve Heavenly Books to adapt into short dramas, then granted Huo Qingyue access to his Qi Ingestion ability. The chapter ended with Zhao Wanru interrupting Ling Yi and Huo Qingyue as they flirted.

• Ling Yi told Zhao Mingyue to turn the twelve Heavenly Books into short dramas and set aside her cultivation for now.
• Ling Yi warned Huo Qingyue not to tempt him, then placed a Qi Ingestion seed inside her so she could use the ability.
• Ling Yi spent one Plot Point to make Huo Qingyue's Qi Ingestion seed permanent, and her affection for him rose by thirty points.
• Huo Qingyue flirted with Ling Yi as he pulled her onto his lap and kissed her.
• Zhao Wanru walked in, and Huo Qingyue told her that Ling Yi had only been teaching her a cultivation method.

Ling Yi gave Zhao Wanru a Daba car, then used the Dragon King Hall to recruit Lin Miaoyin and Jiang Hong into the Phoenix Pavilion. After his cultivation system granted him a major breakthrough, Gu Mingxuan discovered both women had been taken and suspected Ling Yi was behind the changes.

• Zhao Wanru asked Ling Yi for a kiss, and he gave her a forehead kiss before surprising her with the Daba car she had always wanted; she kissed him on the lips in thanks.
• Ling Yi worried that Gu Mingxuan’s intelligent system might help him adapt to the changed plot, so he decided to have Lin Miaoyin and Jiang Hong join the Phoenix Pavilion and messaged Xuanming.
• Ling Yi received cultivation feedback from his bound targets, broke through to the Grand Master Realm, and gained Spirit Yuan Power and rapidly increasing Battle Power.
• The next morning, Gu Mingxuan learned that the Dragon King Hall had taken Lin Miaoyin from the Lin Clan villa.
• Gu Mingxuan went to the University of Finance and Economics to find Jiang Hong, but learned that she had also been taken; he concluded that something was wrong with Ling Yi.

After the Zhao Family canceled Zhao Mingyue’s wedding and the Zhao sisters publicly aligned themselves with Ling Yi, Gu Mingxuan received a mission to win Xia Qianqian’s affection and decided to pursue the new female lead instead of challenging the Dragon King. He sent the Black and White Twin Fiends to investigate her, while Xia Qianqian recalled seeing Ling Yi as a bullied security guard.

• Black Fiend told Gu Mingxuan that the Zhao Family had canceled the wedding banquet, and White Fiend showed him Zhao Mingyue and Zhao Wanru’s posts declaring their closeness to Ling Yi.
• Gu Mingxuan received a system mission to raise Xia Qianqian’s affection above 50 within three days for 3,000 Villain Points.
• Gu Mingxuan learned that Xia Qianqian was the female lead of an urban tycoon script and decided to focus on her while gathering strength to face Ling Yi later.
• Gu Mingxuan ordered the Black and White Twin Fiends to investigate Xia Qianqian and keep a low profile.
• Xia Qianqian asked her friend Honghong whether she had joined the Dragon King Hall and recalled seeing Ling Yi bullied by Zhao Jiancheng while wearing a security guard’s uniform.

After learning that Ling Yi led Phoenix Pavilion, Xia Qianqian decided to seek a place in Dragon King Hall to improve her prospects. Ling Yi established the Spirit Gathering Array and organized Phoenix Pavilion, then was surprised when Xia Qianqian appeared to greet him.

• Honghong told Xia Qianqian that she had joined Phoenix Pavilion and described its cultivation benefits.
• Xia Qianqian reflected on her poor upbringing and decided to go to Mingyue Building to try to join Dragon King Hall.
• Ling Yi activated the Spirit Gathering Array on the ninth floor, using five Spirit Stones to boost Phoenix Pavilion members' cultivation.
• Ling Yi announced Phoenix Pavilion's ranks, a competition in seven days, and recurring challenges with rewards for successful competitors.
• Ling Yi sent Su Ying away to cultivate and told her Xuanming would handle pavilion affairs.
• Xia Qianqian greeted Ling Yi outside Mingyue Building, and he recognized her as the heroine of a story script.

Ling Yi met Xia Qianqian, learned about her ambitions, and agreed to bring her into Phoenix Pavilion as his little sister. After Ling Yi left her at Mingyue Building, Gu Mingxuan emerged from the finance college and wondered where Xia Qianqian had gone.

• Ling Yi recognized Xia Qianqian as a heroine from the tycoon story and considered the threat posed by Huo Tingfei's Tycoon System.
• Ling Yi took Xia Qianqian to lunch and reassured her that he did not look down on her for seeking a wealthy marriage.
• Xia Qianqian asked to join Phoenix Pavilion, and Ling Yi agreed after she called him big brother.
• The system added Xia Qianqian to its list and gave Ling Yi six Battle Power as feedback.
• Ling Yi took Xia Qianqian to Mingyue Building, handed her over to Su Ying, and left.
• Gu Mingxuan left the finance college and wondered where Xia Qianqian had gone.

After reading the twelve novels Ling Yi gave her, Zhao Mingyue discovered that her secretary, Ling Feifei, was the assassin known as the Bloody Queen and had less than three months to live. Feifei read her own novel and insisted they meet Ling Yi, but a call from Xuanming invited her to join Phoenix Pavilion.

• Zhao Mingyue studied the twelve novels and wondered whether her world was made from their stories.
• Zhao Mingyue recognized that Ling Feifei was the Bloody Queen after seeing her name in a novel, and realized Feifei might have less than three months to live.
• Ling Feifei arrived, read the novel about herself, and confirmed that its account of her past was true.
• Ling Feifei dismissed her impending death as less urgent than confronting Ling Yi and pulled Zhao Mingyue up to go see him.
• Xuanming, the right commander of Dragon King Hall, called Ling Feifei and invited her to join Phoenix Pavilion on the Dragon King's behalf.

Ling Feifei accepted Xuanming’s invitation to join the Phoenix Pavilion and went with Zhao Mingyue to meet Ling Yi, where she challenged him to a fight before calling him brother. Ling Yi flew off with Ling Feifei, leaving Zhao Mingyue to help Bai Xiao Yun with her hiring paperwork.

• Ling Feifei told Zhao Mingyue that Xuanming had invited her to join the Phoenix Pavilion, and the two women set out to find Ling Yi.
• Zhao Mingyue rejected Zhao Tianche’s banquet demand and threatened to publicly leave the Zhao Family with Wanru if he kept pressuring her.
• Zhao Mingyue explained how Ling Yi had founded the Phoenix Pavilion and how she and Zhao Wanru had joined it, then told Ling Feifei that members had to call Ling Yi brother.
• Zhao Mingyue and Ling Feifei encountered Ling Yi arriving with Bai Xiao Yun, and Zhao Mingyue realized he had spent the previous night elsewhere, causing her favorability to fall by 20 points.
• Ling Feifei challenged Ling Yi to a fight before she would call him brother, and the two flew away together while Ling Yi left Bai Xiao Yun in Zhao Mingyue’s care.