Recaps

After killing Liu Qiao, Song Zhiyi gained immense strength and mastered the Ten Thousand Souls Spirit Tempering Art with Light Ball’s help. She cultivated to the Nascent Soul Realm in one day, then emerged from the dungeon and attacked Liu Ruyan.

• After Liu Qiao died, Light Ball awarded Song Zhiyi Life Origin and Karmic Luck, then used its refining function to raise her cultivation to the Qi Refining Second Layer.
• Song Zhiyi found Liu Qiao’s Ten Thousand Souls Spirit Tempering Art and a blade-less sword hilt; Light Ball spent 1 point of Life Origin to bring the art to Perfection.
• Song Zhiyi cultivated through the night, reaching Foundation Establishment and then Golden Core Great Perfection, while her soul advanced to Wandering Soul.
• By evening, Song Zhiyi had reached the Nascent Soul Realm and asked Light Ball to lower the refining function after its Spiritual Qi vortex drew attention across Great Wind City.
• Song Zhiyi emerged from the dungeon, shocking Liu Ruyan and the Liu Clan, then slapped Liu Ruyan and sent her flying.

Song Zhiyi confronted the Liu Clan over Feng Jie, then left them alive because she suspected Ling Yi was Feng Jie and did not want to disrupt his mission. Meanwhile, Ling Yi used his Karma System in Great Wind City and planned to deal with the Liu Clan after finishing his current business.

• Song Zhiyi arrived at the Liu Clan, demanded to know where her brother was, and used her Spiritual Pressure to force most of them to their knees.
• Liu Ruyan considered attacking Song Zhiyi, but Song Zhiyi sensed her killing intent and chose not to refine her, deciding to leave the Liu Clan to Ling Yi.
• After Song Zhiyi flew away, Liu Ruyan assumed she had fled and urged the Liu Clan to conceal what happened and seek an Immortal Gate, while hoping to uncover Song Zhiyi’s secret.
• At the Hundred Flowers House, Ling Yi used his Karma System to make Zhang Yunqi return the money he had swindled and received silver and cultivation experience.
• Ling Yi recalled the secrets he had learned about Great Wind City’s city lord and the Hundred Flowers House’s owner, then decided to finish his current business before dealing with the Liu Clan.

Song Zhiyi attended Liu Ruyan’s banquet in disguise as Immortal Gate cultivators arrived to recruit Liu Ruyan for her rare Martial Dao Immortal-Pin Spiritual Root. Feng Jie suddenly condemned Liu Ruyan for her past actions and invoked Karma Punishment, causing her cultivation to collapse.

• Song Zhiyi mingled with the guests in disguise and discussed the world, Karmic Luck, and the expected arrival of Immortal Gate cultivators with Light Ball.
• More than a dozen flying boats brought seventeen cultivators from four top sects to the Liu residence.
• An elder identified Liu Ruyan as the possessor of a Martial Dao Immortal-Pin Spiritual Root, which could lead her to ascend to the Immortal Realm.
• Liu Ruyan asked how to choose a sect, but Feng Jie’s unseen voice accused her of exploiting another person’s feelings and warned that retribution had arrived.
• Feng Jie invoked Karma Punishment, and Liu Ruyan’s cultivation rapidly fell from late Grandmaster to Master as she cried out in agony.

Ling Yi crippled Liu Ruyan and stripped the Liu Clan of its karmic luck, after which the clan was exterminated and Liu Ruyan disappeared. Later, Ling Yi and Song Zhiyi parted ways over a demon crisis, and after two months of punishing evildoers in Great Wind City, Ling Yi prepared to leave until an enormous flying boat appeared overhead.

• Ling Yi used Karma punishment to destroy Liu Ruyan’s cultivation and cripple her dantian and meridians, then deprived the Liu Clan of its karmic luck for helping her.
• Elder Mu examined Liu Ruyan and concluded that someone had reversed her cultivation method; he and the other cultivators left to reinforce the demon sealing.
• The Liu Clan was exterminated three days later, while Liu Ruyan was left alive and then disappeared.
• Half a month later, Song Zhiyi told Ling Yi that demons had escaped and Chongzhou City had fallen; she planned to go there, and Ling Yi gave her cards for protection before they parted.
• Ling Yi spent two months punishing evildoers in Great Wind City under his alternate identity, then decided to leave after exhausting his local targets.
• As Ling Yi prepared to visit the Hundred Flowers House and depart the next morning, a huge flying boat appeared above Great Wind City.

Ling Yi learned that he was Feng Wuyan and Madam Fragrant Osmanthus’s long-lost son, Feng Jie, and that they planned to hide his identity until their adopted son Feng Wuji reached the Dao Integration Realm. Feng Wuyan insulted Ling Yi and challenged him to reach that realm within a year, prompting Ling Yi to call on the Karma System.

• Feng Wuyan and Madam Fragrant Osmanthus found Ling Yi and revealed that they were his parents and that he was Feng Jie.
• Madam Fragrant Osmanthus explained how enemies had forced them to abandon Feng Jie as a newborn and seal his bloodline for twenty years.
• Madam Fragrant Osmanthus said they had adopted Feng Wuji and wanted Ling Yi to remain an adopted son until Wuji broke through to the Dao Integration Realm.
• Ling Yi recognized the situation as a real-and-fake young master plot and decided he wanted to see how it played out.
• Feng Wuyan called Ling Yi trash, ordered him to reach the Dao Integration Realm within a year, and Ling Yi called on the Karma System.

Ling Yi assessed Feng Wuyan and Zhao Mudan through the Karma System, selecting punishments for both while pretending to be an uncultivated fool. After Zhao Mudan accidentally blasted him off the flying boat with a spirit fruit’s power, Ling Yi learned the couple wanted to keep him alive to transfer his Feng family bloodline to Feng Wuji.

• Ling Yi chose a punishment for Feng Wuyan that would strip his cultivation and Karmic Luck, leave him ten years to live, and expose his past deeds.
• Ling Yi chose to make Zhao Mudan speak only the truth, with each lie lowering her cultivation.
• Ling Yi pretended to be a foolish mortal and asked Feng Wuyan and Zhao Mudan for food.
• Zhao Mudan gave Ling Yi a vermilion fruit, then blasted him off the flying boat when he feigned pain and grabbed her.
• Zhao Mudan returned with Ling Yi injured, and Feng Wuyan revealed they needed him alive to give his Feng family bloodline to Feng Wuji.

Ling Yi discovered that Feng Wuji was a Python Snake demon who had planted mind-bewitching seeds throughout the Fengyun Holy Land, and he secretly carried out karmic punishments against Feng Wuyan, Zhao Mudan, and Feng Wuji. When Feng Wuji tried to elicit sympathy and draw Ling Yi into a bloodline exchange, Ling Yi fainted to avoid cooperating.

• Feng Wuji announced he would leave because he believed he had stolen twenty years of Ling Yi's life, while Ling Yi recognized the familiar real-and-fake young master runaway plot.
• Ling Yi's Karma System revealed Feng Wuji's demon identity, his mind-bewitching ability, and his role in causing the deaths of more than two hundred thousand human cultivators.
• Ling Yi chose to reverse the mind-bewitching effect while punishing Feng Wuyan, Zhao Mudan, and Feng Wuji, earning cultivation time and Karmic Luck Points.
• Feng Wuyan insisted Feng Wuji would always be his son, and Feng Wuji glanced at Ling Yi while claiming he feared his elder brother would reject him.
• Ling Yi spat blood and fainted to avoid willingly exchanging bloodlines with Feng Wuji.

Feng Wuyan lost his cultivation, Karmic Luck, and most of his lifespan, while the reversed Mind-Bewitching Seed made Zhao Mudan see through Feng Wuji’s lies. Zhao Mudan and Feng Wuyan suspected Feng Wuji was connected to the Python Snake Demon Clan, and Ling Yi realized an even greater storm was coming for Fengyun Holy Land.

• Feng Wuyan’s cultivation and lifespan were stripped away, leaving him an old, dying mortal, while Feng Wuji’s cultivation also fell.
• Feng Wuji tried to blame Feng Wuyan’s condition on Ling Yi, but his Mind-Bewitching Seed failed and Zhao Mudan challenged his claims and past behavior.
• Zhao Mudan gave Feng Wuyan the Origin-Restoring Pill, restoring his body and Spiritual Root but not his cultivation.
• Zhao Mudan told Feng Wuyan she suspected Feng Wuji had been influenced by the Python Snake Demon Clan, and Feng Wuyan agreed to test him using the clan’s blood.
• Feng Wuyan began cultivating to restore his strength, Zhao Mudan went to care for Ling Yi, and Ling Yi realized a greater crisis was approaching Fengyun Holy Land.

Song Zhiyi intervened when demons broke through the weakened Western Province sealing formation, refining the horde and rapidly advancing to the Dao Integration Realm. A powerful demon remained trapped beyond the rift and threatened her as more demons emerged.

• Elder Mu and the others rushed to reinforce the Demon-Sealing Grand Formation after discovering that one pillar had lost its stored Spiritual Power.
• Demons poured through a widening spatial rift, and Elder Mu prepared to burn his life while Brother Bai and the others moved to fight them.
• Song Zhiyi and Light Ball used full-power refinement to turn the demons to ash, earning Life Origin and Karmic Luck while the stunned cultivators repaired the formation.
• Elder Mu recognized Song Zhiyi from the Liu Clan of Great Wind City, as an enraged demon inside the rift threatened to kill her.
• Song Zhiyi refined more demons as they charged out of the rift, advancing from the Late Nascent Soul Realm to the Dao Integration Realm.

Ling Yi toured Fengyun Holy Land while farming Karma Rewards and Punishments, and learned from Qin Yu and Qin Wu that Feng Wuji had corrupted the sect. The twins asked Ling Yi to restrain Feng Wuji, unaware that he was already dead, while Ling Yi prepared to expose Feng Wuyan's crimes and pit him against Zhao Mudan.

• Feng Wuyan and Zhao Mudan confirmed Feng Wuji was a member of the Python Snake Clan, extracted his memories, and caused his soul to scatter; Zhao Mudan crippled Jiang Hanyan and sent her to the Ice Cave, where she died.
• Ling Yi took a tour of Fengyun Holy Land with Qin Yu and Qin Wu, whose good deeds had earned them Karma Rewards and Punishments that greatly improved their cultivation and abilities.
• Ling Yi found nearly every cultivator in Fengyun Holy Land deserving of punishment and scheduled their Karma plans to take effect together in one month, during the Holy Land Grand Competition.
• Ling Yi planned to use the competition to farm rewards from the gathered geniuses and anticipated that revelations of Feng Wuyan's crimes would turn Zhao Mudan against him.
• Qin Yu and Qin Wu told Ling Yi that Feng Wuji had ruined Fengyun Holy Land and asked him to keep the young master in check, not realizing Feng Wuji was already dead.

Ling Yi watched Fengyun Holy Land collapse in strength as Zhao Mudan concealed her cultivation loss during the Holy Land Grand Competition. When rival holy lords mocked her and Fengyun Holy Land, Ling Yi intervened and exposed the crimes of Dongfang Ming, the holy lord of Eastern Granary Holy Land.

• Zhao Mudan crippled Feng Wuyan, ripped out his soul, and refined it into a painting, while her own cultivation fell from the Mahayana Realm to the Dao Integration Realm.
• Over the next half month, Zhao Mudan’s cultivation continued to fall because she lied, but she failed to realize the cause and hid her weakness from everyone.
• At the Holy Land Grand Competition, Fengyun Holy Land’s disciples performed disastrously, with only Qin Yu and Qin Wu winning among its ten personal disciples.
• The rival holy lords mocked Zhao Mudan and Feng Shaojie, then exchanged glances as they probed her apparent weakness.
• Ling Yi restrained Dongfang Ming and revealed that he had killed his master, raped his master’s wife, and later poisoned the former holy son Bai Dongsheng and the former holy lord.

Ling Yi exposed Dongfang Ming’s use of the Wedding Dress Divine Skill and killed him by summoning a heavenly tribulation. He installed Bai Ruyan as the Eastern Granary Holy Land’s new Holy Lord, punished Gu Yu, and began announcing a new regional resource distribution, ending as he introduced a condition.

• Ling Yi accused Dongfang Ming of poisoning elders, sacrificing disciples to the Wedding Dress Divine Skill, and avoiding the heavenly tribulation that could kill him.
• Ling Yi summoned a heavenly tribulation, protected everyone else with an Invincibility Card, and Dongfang Ming was destroyed by black lightning.
• Ling Yi revealed that Qin Ruyan was Bai Ruyan, the previous Holy Lord’s illegitimate daughter, and named her the Eastern Granary Holy Land’s new Holy Lord.
• Ling Yi exposed Gu Yu’s crimes, stripped away his cultivation, luck, and lifespan, and let the vengeful spirits in his Soul Refining Banner devour him; he gave the banner to Qin Yu.
• Ling Yi declared that the resources of the four eastern, southern, western, and northern provinces would belong to their respective regions, then began to add a condition.

Ling Yi forced the four other Holy Lands to accept Fengyun Holy Land’s rules, then spent a hundred years earning karmic rewards while Song Zhiyi gathered Karmic Luck. After becoming this world’s true Child of Karmic Luck, Ling Yi received a map of the Myriad Worlds and prepared to leave.

• Ling Yi demanded seventy percent of resource profits, established the annual Heavenly Pride Grand Competition and three departments, and made the other Holy Lords sign binding Contracts.
• Bai Ruyan and Nangong Yue signed the Contracts, followed by the remaining two Holy Lords; Ling Yi told Zhao Mudan he would restore her cultivation and longevity if she gave him the Holy Lord position and did not cause trouble.
• Ling Yi ordered the Karma System to carry out rewards and punishments in half a year, then stayed in Fengyun Holy Land while annual competitions and karmic judgments changed the Immortal Cultivation Realm over a hundred years.
• Song Zhiyi transferred her accumulated Karmic Luck to Ling Yi and explained that she had spent the century farming demons and devils; Light Ball said the final batch would let Ling Yi become the world’s true Child of Karmic Luck.
• Ling Yi received the Karmic Luck, lost the world’s sense of rejection, and obtained the Myriad Worlds Map, which showed the worlds he and Xia Wanqing and Feng Jie had conquered.
• Ling Yi told Song Zhiyi they would leave this world first.

Ling Yi entered Gu Mingzhou’s world, where Gu Mingzhou had been driven to suicide by his wife Song Zhixia’s relationship with Huo Yuan, and learned the wish was to uncover their secret and escape Song Zhixia. After skipping classes to investigate, he returned home and was confronted by Song Zhixia, who had noticed his sudden distance.

• Ling Yi learned Gu Mingzhou’s history with Song Zhixia, including their marriage, her closeness with Huo Yuan, and Gu Mingzhou’s failed attempts to escape before his suicide.
• Ling Yi recalled Gu Mingzhou’s wishes to discover the truth behind Song Zhixia and Huo Yuan and to stay away from Song Zhixia.
• Ling Yi left class, spent three hours away, returned to eat, and then left again without speaking to Song Zhixia.
• Song Zhixia grew unsettled by Gu Mingzhou’s unusual absence and disregard for her.
• Song Zhixia returned home and found Ling Yi chatting with her younger sister, Song Zhiqiu, then asked him why he had skipped class.

Ling Yi and Song Zhiyi investigated Huo Yuan’s suspiciously precise interference in Gu Mingzhou and Song Zhixia’s relationship and planned to stage a kidnapping so they could escape abroad. Yun AI then sent Ling Yi its findings on Huo Yuan, leaving him convinced the repeated coincidences were no coincidence.

• Ling Yi told Song Zhiyi he wanted to investigate Huo Yuan, and they reasoned that someone close to Song Zhixia was likely feeding information to a mastermind.
• Ling Yi decided against changing his college preference to Nanli, and Song Zhiyi proposed staging a kidnapping so they could both go abroad; Light Ball agreed to arrange it.
• Song Zhixia watched Ling Yi and Song Zhiqiu together and wondered why her younger sister seemed close to Gu Mingzhou after previously treating him harshly.
• Song Zhixia saw Ling Yi skip class the next morning, but she left without asking what he was doing.
• Yun AI sent Ling Yi the information it had gathered on Huo Yuan, and Ling Yi concluded that the coincidences surrounding him were suspicious.

Ling Yi uncovered the spy’s plan to use Huo Yuan against the Song Family and reconsidered how to protect Gu Mingzhou and Song Zhixia. He told Song Zhixia he planned to attend Nan Yun Institute of Technology and leave her behind because he had fallen for her.

• Ling Yi learned that Huo Yuan was a pawn of a foreign spy targeting the Song Family’s military research and suspected Song Zhixia’s behavior might be part of a secret mission.
• Yun AI gathered information showing that Huo Yuan’s handlers planned for him to play the hero and save a beauty after a class reunion.
• Ling Yi decided that leaving the country after kidnapping Huo Yuan could cause problems and concluded that he and Song Zhixia were likely to clash even without Huo Yuan.
• Song Zhixia asked Ling Yi why he had been busy and skipped class, and he told her he planned to apply to Nan Yun Institute of Technology instead of Qingbei.
• Ling Yi confessed that he had fallen for Song Zhixia and said he wanted to leave so he would not become more attached or keep relying on her family.

After Gu Mingzhou called off their arranged future, Song Zhixia could not sleep, and Ling Yi’s Memory Card unexpectedly unlocked memories of her own future. Those memories ended with Gu Mingzhou’s suicide on the day Song Zhixia married Huo Yuan, leaving her with a nightmare of the life that might have followed.

• Song Zhixia went to bed unsettled after Gu Mingzhou raised ending their arrangement, and she remained awake until nearly dawn.
• Ling Yi’s Memory Card merged into Song Zhixia, triggering memories of a future in which she and Gu Mingzhou attended Qingbei University and became engaged.
• In those memories, Huo Yuan staged a rescue after arranging an attack on Song Zhixia and Gu Mingzhou, and Song Qingsong uncovered Huo Yuan’s ties to a spy organization.
• Song Zhixia and Song Qingsong investigated Huo Yuan, but his growing influence strained Song Zhixia’s marriage to Gu Mingzhou, whom she kept out of the operation.
• On the day Song Zhixia married Huo Yuan as part of a plan to arrest the spy network, she learned that Gu Mingzhou had jumped from a building beside the wedding banquet.

Ling Yi learned from Song Zhixia’s memories how their misunderstanding had led to both of their deaths, then accepted Gu Mingzhou’s changed wish and delivered his apology. After reconciling with Song Zhixia, Ling Yi prepared to work with her to expose Huo Yuan and the people behind him.

• Ling Yi viewed Song Zhixia’s memories and saw how she grieved for Gu Mingzhou before dying years later from exhaustion.
• Gu Mingzhou canceled his original wishes and asked Ling Yi to tell Song Zhixia that he had been wrong not to believe her.
• Ling Yi agreed to pass on the message, and Song Zhixia came to him in tears, apologizing for keeping the truth from him.
• Ling Yi told Song Zhixia that he had learned what happened after his death and acknowledged that he had ignored the clues proving she was innocent.
• Ling Yi and Song Zhixia agreed to gather evidence against Huo Yuan and the people behind him, then persuade Uncle Song.

Ling Yi completed Gu Mingzhou's world, left Yun AI with Song Zhixia, and returned to the Chaos Space, where he met a new wisher, Zhao Lin Cheng. After hearing Zhao Lin Cheng's wish, Ling Yi entered the Da Wu Nation and learned that its capital was under threat because Zhao Niancheng had provoked the Yun Nation.

• Ling Yi gave Song Zhixia primary authorization for Yun AI, then left the world after the college entrance exam.
• A flowerpot knocked Ling Yi unconscious during his departure, and Gu Mingzhou's soul dispersed in the Chaos Space after regretting that he had not trusted Zhixia.
• Zhao Lin Cheng appeared as a new wisher and asked Ling Yi to stay away from Lin Zhiyuan and guard the border in Zhao Niancheng's place.
• Ling Yi entered the Da Wu Nation and learned from Zhao Lin Cheng's memories that Zhao Lin Cheng had forced Lin Zhiyuan to marry him and sent Zhao Niancheng to the western border.
• Zhao Niancheng provoked the Yun Nation, whose army reached the gates of the Da Wu capital in less than half a month.

Ling Yi took Zhao Lin Cheng’s place and persuaded Zhao Wuji to send him to defend Da Wu Nation’s border while marrying Lin Zhiyuan to Zhao Niancheng. As he rode away, a red-clad attacker ambushed him, and his Ultimate Realm Experience Card revealed that this supposedly non-transcendent world had a Human Immortal Realm.

• Ling Yi recalled Lin Zhiyuan and Zhao Lin Cheng’s tragic deaths and learned how Zhao Niancheng’s harassment of Yun Mengyao had led to Da Wu Nation’s downfall.
• Ling Yi asked Zhao Wuji to change the decrees so he would defend the border and Lin Zhiyuan would marry Zhao Niancheng, arguing that Da Wu Nation had to grow stronger and defeat Yun Nation.
• Zhao Wuji agreed to change the decrees and keep the decision secret from Zhao Niancheng and Lin Zhiyuan until they were issued seven days later.
• Ling Yi rode from the palace, wondering whether Song Zhiyi had transmigrated as Lin Zhiyuan or Yun Mengyao.
• A red-clad figure leaped from a tavern and attacked Ling Yi, who used his Ultimate Realm Experience Card and discovered he had reached the Human Immortal Realm.

Ling Yi revealed his unexpected strength to Lin Zhiyuan, who learned that he had also been reborn and insisted on guarding the border herself. Zhao Niancheng agreed to contact the Yun Nation, while Song Zhiyi arrived in the Yun Nation and decided to pursue the throne.

• Ling Yi caught Lin Zhiyuan’s sword attack and fled on horseback, leaving her to chase him.
• Zhao Niancheng watched Ling Yi’s display of strength and agreed to contact the Yun Nation, deciding to go himself.
• At the First Prince’s residence, Lin Zhiyuan discovered Ling Yi’s strength and learned that he had been reborn too.
• Lin Zhiyuan said she planned to guard the border, while Ling Yi told her he would go instead.
• Song Zhiyi received Yun Mengyao’s memories and decided to become empress.

Song Zhiyi became Emperor Yun after conquering the Yun Nation and the Chuli Kingdom, alarming Da Wu’s emperor. Ling Yi set out with the Tiger Guard Battalion for the Yun border, while Lin Zhiyuan received the imperial marriage decree.

• Song Zhiyi used a modern army to seize the Yun throne, execute opponents, defeat Chuli, and prepare to introduce high-yield crops.
• Ling Yi read the emperor’s report about Emperor Yun and went to the imperial study, where Zhao Wuji asked how Da Wu should respond.
• Ling Yi insisted on going to the border and joked that he might marry Emperor Yun; Zhao Wuji entrusted him with the Tiger Guard Battalion.
• Ling Yi used a Loyalty Card to bring the ten-thousand-strong Tiger Guard Battalion under his control and ordered them to gather at the West City gate.
• Ling Yi and the battalion departed for the Da Wu–Yun border as Lin Zhiyuan received the marriage decree.

Lin Zhiyuan learned that Zhao Niancheng had conspired with the Yun Nation to seize the throne, so she tore up their marriage decree and arrested him. She left him at swordpoint as she prepared to take him before the emperor.

• Lin Zhiyuan received the decree betrothing her to Zhao Niancheng and rode after Zhao Lin Cheng, but she could not catch up with him.
• On her way back, Lin Zhiyuan captured Yun Nation agents and discovered Zhao Niancheng had invited the Yun Nation to attack Da Wu so he could usurp the throne.
• Lin Zhiyuan returned to the capital and confronted Zhao Niancheng at her manor.
• Lin Zhiyuan tore up the marriage decree, canceled the engagement, and accused Zhao Niancheng of colluding with the Yun Nation.
• Lin Zhiyuan put a sword to Zhao Niancheng's neck and ordered him to come with her to the imperial palace.

Song Zhiyi and Ling Yi reunited at Black Tortoise City, agreed to a marriage alliance, and made plans to take control of their respective nations. After securing the city, Ling Yi prepared to travel to the imperial city, but an unexpected visitor arrived.

• Song Zhiyi studied the continent map, asked the Light Ball to mark nine places with unusual auras, and bet half the world's Power of Origin on Ling Yi being the Big Shot.
• After hearing that Zhao Lin Cheng had arrived in Black Tortoise City with ten thousand elite troops, Song Zhiyi drove an SUV to the city walls and confirmed Ling Yi's identity with their chuunibyou code.
• Ling Yi and Song Zhiyi pretended to be Zhao Lin Cheng and Yun Mengyao, then agreed to announce a marriage alliance and wed in half a month.
• Song Zhiyi returned to her camp, while Ling Yi took control of Black Tortoise City by distributing Loyalty Cards and issuing orders.
• After spending three days managing the city, Ling Yi prepared to leave for the imperial city, but a dusty, travel-worn visitor arrived.

After Zhao Nianyun’s coup failed, Ling Yi became emperor, joined Da Wu Nation and Yun Nation into the Ancient Country, and unified the continent by force. When he returned to the imperial city, Zhao Nianyun and an elderly stranger descended from the sky to confront him.

• Lin Zhiyuan told Ling Yi that Zhao Niancheng had died and Zhao Nianyun had attacked the imperial palace with three hundred pseudo-Masters before escaping from two mysterious cultivators.
• Ling Yi learned that Zhao Lin Cheng's obsession had dissipated, then asked Lin Zhiyuan to help him unify the nations; after she insulted him out of habit, he left for the imperial city.
• Zhao Wuji abdicated, and Zhao Lin Cheng ascended the throne before announcing a marriage alliance with Yun Mengyao.
• Da Wu Nation and Yun Nation merged into the Ancient Country, and Ling Yi led a modernized army to unify the continent in less than half a year.
• Song Zhiyi and Light Ball explored nine secret realms and discovered they formed a protective barrier that kept Spiritual Qi out, so Song Zhiyi chose not to break it.
• After returning from his campaign, Ling Yi was stopped at the imperial city gates by Zhao Nianyun and a white-haired, hunched old man.