Recaps

Ling Yi considered how to exploit Zhao Heng’s revenge plot to make Ling Yan see his true nature and earn Heartache Points. When Zhao Heng entered Junlin Hall to mock him, Ling Yi slapped him and gained 1,500 Heartache Points.

• Ling Yi learned that Ling Yan had moved Lin Yu into Junlin Hall to favor and confine him while taking control of his military authority.
• Ling Yi recalled that Zhao Heng was the surviving ninth prince of Da Zhou, who planned to overthrow Da Wu, and that the original plot had ended with Lin Yu being tortured before returning to the modern era.
• Ling Yi asked Water Ball to scan for other systems, and the scan found none while activating continuous scanning for the rest of the world.
• Ling Yi decided to wait for Zhao Heng to cause trouble, expose himself to Ling Yan, and generate Heartache Points before leaving the world.
• Zhao Heng entered Junlin Hall and mocked Lin Yu, so Ling Yi slapped him and gained 1,500 Heartache Points.

Ling Yi exposed Zhao Heng’s identity as the ninth imperial prince and set events in motion, leading Zhao Heng to launch a palace coup against Empress Ling Yan. With the palace under siege, Ling Yan asked Ling Yi for help, but he rejected her apology.

• Ling Yi repeatedly slapped Zhao Heng, revealed that he knew Zhao Heng was the ninth imperial prince, and warned him to stay away.
• Ling Yi planted a letter in Ling Yan’s study and tampered with signs around Zhao Heng’s hidden armories, prompting Ling Yan to investigate him.
• Ling Yan’s investigation exposed Zhao Heng’s military supplies, and Zhao Heng launched a coup under the pretext of clearing Lin Yu’s name.
• Zhao Heng’s forces surrounded the palace after their attacks failed, leaving Ling Yan’s defenders trapped in a standoff.
• Ling Yan visited Ling Yi in Junlin Hall and pleaded for help, but Ling Yi mocked her apology and refused to call her by his former name.

Ling Yan begged Lin Yu to save Da Wu and offered him the throne, but Ling Yi rejected her and projected a screen over the imperial city. The screen showed an AI-generated account of Lin Yu as an immortal and a bleak future for Ling Yan and Da Wu, earning Ling Yi a huge number of Heartache Points.

• Ling Yan admitted she was wrong and offered to make Lin Yu co-ruler or give him the throne if he saved Da Wu.
• Ling Yi rejected Ling Yan's offers and used the system to project a huge screen over the imperial city.
• The screen showed Lin Yu as an Exalted Lord of the Heavenly Court who had descended into the mortal realm and later been framed and tortured.
• Ling Yan fell to her knees in grief, while Zhao Heng and other onlookers suffered increased Heartache Levels and Ling Yi gained millions of Heartache Points.
• The screen's revised story showed Lin Yu returning to the Heavenly Court, Ling Yan dying after years of torture, and Zhao Heng destroying Da Wu and founding Da Zhou.

Ling Yi staged a divine judgment against Zhao Heng and Ling Yan, then faced the Heavenly Dao’s lightning and devoured its attacks, gaining the ability to fly. After the Heavenly Dao dispersed its vortex and withdrew, Ling Yi sent the system to demand compensation.

• Ling Yi appeared as Emperor Lin Yu in the sky, sentenced Zhao Heng to three lives in the Animal Realm, and stripped Ling Yan of her imperial status for a year.
• The Heavenly Dao formed a lightning vortex and struck Ling Yi with a bolt, which he devoured to grow stronger and used to comprehend Lightning Punishment.
• Ling Yi saved one Rebound and one Damage Transfer while devouring the last of three black lightning bolts, then discovered he could truly fly.
• Ling Yi flew into the vortex and began devouring it, causing the Heavenly Dao to disperse it before he could consume the whole thing.
• Ling Yi agreed to let the system negotiate compensation from the Heavenly Dao in exchange for ten percent of the benefits.

Ling Yi weighed whether to return to the real world without the system, then got caught up in Huo Feng’s fake-young-master family drama. He exposed Huo Ting’s accusation with a mountain of genuine luxury watches and called the police.

• Ling Yi realized he had enough Heartache Points to heal himself, but returning to the real world would leave the system behind to be captured by the school.
• At a Huo Family banquet, Huo Ting claimed his expensive watch had been stolen and accused Ling Yi, the returned real young master, of taking it.
• Huo Fangyun, Bai Fangfang, and other family members joined in blaming Ling Yi and demanding that he return the watch.
• Ling Yi shouted for everyone to be quiet and summoned a pile of luxury watches, which guests confirmed were genuine.
• Ling Yi grabbed Huo Ting by the collar, challenged him to identify his watch, and called the police after Huo Ting insisted the watches were stolen.

Ling Yi exposed Huo Ting’s schemes and revealed that the Huo Family had excluded Huo Feng from their wills, while calling the police and tax authorities on them. He ended by declaring that he intended to destroy the Huo Family, regardless of its property.

• Ling Yi called the police over the watches and reported Huo Shan and other Huo Family members to the tax office, then sealed the banquet hall doors so nobody could leave.
• Lin Sisi confronted Ling Yi, who mocked her and accused the Huo Family of favoring Huo Ting over their true son, Huo Feng.
• Ling Yi played footage showing Huo Ting staging a tearful departure and faking a fall down the stairs, prompting Bai Fangfang to admit the family had wrongly blamed Huo Feng.
• Ling Yi showed wills dated just after Huo Feng returned, revealing that Huo Shan and Bai Fangfang had left him out of their inheritance.
• Huo Shan offered to change the wills, but Ling Yi said he did not care about the property and wanted to destroy the Huo Family.

After the Huo Family was taken away, Ling Yi asked his system whether he could keep his freedom to return to the real world while traveling between worlds. The system said it needed ten billion Heartache Points to reach level nine, and Ling Yi set strict rules before demanding to hear its origins, but Lin Sisi arrived and interrupted them.

• Ling Yi showed the Huo Family's tax-evasion evidence, and the police and tax officers took the family into custody.
• Ling Yi asked the system if he could both keep it and return to the real world, and it explained that reaching level nine required ten billion Heartache Points.
• Ling Yi told the system not to use Heartache Points without permission or lie to him, then asked it to explain its origins.
• Lin Sisi arrived in a red sports car and invited Ling Yi to her home.
• Ling Yi recognized Zhao Yun, who revealed she had won a bet with Little Jin, and he got into Lin Sisi's car.

Ling Yi learned that Zhao Yun and Little Jin had found him by sensing his vast Karmic Luck and wanted to ride his coattails for energy. As Zhao Yun began discussing how to fleece his Karmic Luck, Ling Yi grew uneasy about what she meant by the reverse.

• Ling Yi asked Water Ball to take Lin Sisi's palace with them, and Little Jin was shocked by their wealth of Heartache Points.
• Ling Yi learned Zhao Yun and Little Jin had traveled through thirty-two worlds and that Little Jin feared being caught by the school disciplinary committee if he devoured another system.
• Little Jin explained that he had found Ling Yi by recognizing the data arrangement of his Karmic Luck across worlds.
• Zhao Yun admitted she and Little Jin wanted to ride Ling Yi's coattails and draw energy from his Karmic Luck.
• Zhao Yun asked how systems fleeced other people's Karmic Luck, and Ling Yi felt uneasy when she asked about the reverse.

Zhao Yun explained how System Schools exploited worlds for Karmic Luck Origin and revealed that Water Ball’s mutation had freed the school’s systems from the Main System. She said the systems could destroy the System World if they reached level nine, then offered Ling Yi a second plan: helping him control his own Karmic Luck.

• Little Jin suggested that Ling Yi let plot characters abuse him, but Ling Yi rejected the idea.
• Zhao Yun explained that System Schools screened systems to maximize the Karmic Luck Origin they could extract from hosts and worlds.
• Zhao Yun described how systems drained worlds until they became dead worlds, and said the System World sent out about a billion systems each year.
• Zhao Yun revealed that Water Ball’s mutated data core had freed it and other school systems from the Main System, and that a level-nine system could destroy the Main System and the System World.
• Zhao Yun explained that the Main System was powerful but weakened by repairing a defect in its data core, then said she would help Ling Yi take control of his own Karmic Luck.

Ling Yi learned that controlling his vast Karmic Luck might require entering a deadly place, and Zhao Yun proposed the Land of the World Tomb’s first Wasted World, Origin Star. As he weighed the danger, the Huo Family’s old master called to demand that he stop ruining the family, and Ling Yi refused.

• Zhao Yun said Ling Yi would need to reach desperate straits to control his Karmic Luck and proposed that she, Little Jin, and Water Ball accompany him into a deadly place.
• Water Ball named the Land of the World Tomb, and Zhao Yun chose Origin Star, the first Wasted World, as their destination.
• Zhao Yun revealed that Origin Star had been a Wasted World for 129,600 of its own years and that she was its World Consciousness, or Heavenly Dao.
• The Huo Family’s old master called Ling Yi and told him to stop destroying the family.
• Ling Yi reminded the old master that he had ignored his mistreatment in the Huo Family and refused to withdraw the evidence he had given to the authorities.

Ling Yi bankrupted the Huo Family and completed his mission, but Zhao Yun and Water Ball secretly forced a teleport to Origin Star in the Wasted World. The chapter ended as the passage opened and Ling Yi realized the system had spent 50 million Heartache Points without his consent.

• Zhao Yun decided to send Ling Yi to Origin Star by force because the Main System was close to reaching level nine, and Water Ball calculated that the journey would cost their remaining 60-odd million Heartache Points.
• Zhao Yun told Ling Yi that Huo Shan and his family had been released on bail and that the evidence against them had disappeared, so Ling Yi used his system and ten trillion in local currency to attack the Huo Family's businesses.
• Ling Yi's campaign revived the evidence online, ruined the Huo Family's finances, and led to the family being tried and sentenced; Bai Fangfang escaped prison but was left with their debts.
• Ling Yi completed his mission, earned a net profit in Heartache Points, and asked the system to take him to the next world.
• The system locked onto Origin Star's coordinates and opened a teleportation passage at a cost of 50 million Heartache Points, prompting Ling Yi to accuse it of fighting dirty.

Ling Yi woke in his old hospital ward on Blue Star and discovered he had retained his Devouring ability, Personal Space, and the items inside it after returning from another world. As Director Zhu and several others arrived to confront him, Zhao Yun, Water Ball, and Little Jin found themselves billions of light-years away and set out to build a spaceship to find Ling Yi.

• Ling Yi woke in the hospital ward where he had been dying of advanced stomach cancer and realized sunlight was restoring his strength through his Devouring ability.
• Ling Yi confirmed that his Personal Space and its contents had survived, then concluded that Origin Star was Blue Star and that his abilities had returned with him.
• Ling Yi heard Director Zhu and the nurse discuss his illness before Director Zhu entered the ward with five others and addressed him as Boss Ling.
• Zhao Yun learned from Water Ball that a powerful force had separated Ling Yi from them during their transmigration, leaving them billions of light-years away.
• Zhao Yun ordered Water Ball to use its remaining Karmic Luck Origin to make a spaceship so they could search for Ling Yi.

Ling Yi learned from Old Zhu that the stars were vanishing at an accelerating rate and the universe might be dead within three years. After tests confirmed his stomach cancer was gone, Ling Yi left the hospital with Old Zhu, who agreed to vouch for him because he might be the only person capable of saving the world.

• Ling Yi told Old Zhu about his system and transmigration, and Old Zhu explained that scientists had discovered the universe was dying as stars disappeared.
• Old Zhu revealed that he belonged to the Save the World Society and had witnessed stars vanish while observing the sky, with the sun possibly going out within three years.
• Ling Yi decided to leave the hospital, and expedited tests showed he had recovered from stomach cancer, though he was malnourished.
• Old Zhu took Ling Yi to the police station to complete procedures for his past offenses and said he would vouch for him because he might be the only one who could save the world.

Ling Yi settled into a new apartment while Old Zhu explored how Ling Yi’s abilities might help save the world. As Ling Yi considered the nature of Karmic Luck Origin and the worlds he had visited, he began to suspect that Blue Star was also a virtual world.

• Ling Yi shouted for the world to return to normal after Old Zhu suggested it, then completed procedures at the Inspection Bureau and paid with the bank card created by his system.
• Old Zhu explained that the Save the World Society was building an underground shelter for just over twenty thousand people, while the authorities had been shipping supplies to Xiqing District for fifty years.
• Old Zhu arranged an apartment for Ling Yi in Ruyi District and helped him buy food, clothes, and other necessities.
• Over hot pot, Ling Yi confirmed that his Personal Space could hold living people, change its environment, and grow larger as he became stronger.
• Old Zhu suggested Ling Yi could use his expanding Personal Space to save humanity, and Ling Yi began reasoning that Blue Star might be a virtual world like the worlds he had visited.

Ling Yi learned that he could save Blue Star by devouring the sun and putting the planet in his Personal Space, then regained his Land Immortal strength and began sensing Karmic Luck. Zhao Yun returned to Blue Star with Little Jin and Water Ball and gave Ling Yi the Heaven-Severing Record, which could help him control his destiny.

• Old Zhu urged Ling Yi to devour the sun and place Blue Star in his Personal Space, and Ling Yi said he needed to recover his ability to fly first.
• Ling Yi used God Grade Hacking to probe the world for information after Old Zhu left.
• Zhao Yun, Little Jin, and Water Ball returned to the Solar System aboard a cigar-shaped spaceship, and Zhao Yun suspected Ling Yi was an outsider from beyond their world.
• Two months later, the spaceship appeared near the moon, and Zhao Yun and the two balls arrived in Dafeng City to meet Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi demanded that Water Ball exchange its remaining five million Heartache Points for a Karmic Luck cultivation method, but Zhao Yun offered the Heaven-Severing Record instead.
• Zhao Yun passed the technique to Ling Yi and explained that mastering it could let him control his destiny and save them all.

Zhao Yun told Little Jin and Water Ball the Primordial World’s hidden history, explaining how the Heaven-Severing Record and repeated Reincarnations had shaped the Wasted World. As Zhao Yun searched for Pangu or the source of Karmic Luck Origin to save her world, Ling Yi emerged from meditation and said he knew where the Origin entrance was.

• Ling Yi began meditating on the Heaven-Severing Record, while Zhao Yun recalled that Hongjun had created it and nearly usurped her position as Heavenly Dao.
• Zhao Yun described how Pangu used Karmic Luck Origin to split heaven and reshape the world, after which she gained consciousness and the thirty-six Demon Gods appeared as bugs.
• Zhao Yun explained that the calamities from Gonggong striking Mount Buzhou through Journey to the West had helped erase the Demon Gods and repair the world’s bugs.
• Zhao Yun said system-bearing transmigrators disrupted the timeline, forcing her to trigger repeated Reincarnations that consumed the world’s Karmic Luck Origin until it became a Wasted World.
• Zhao Yun revealed that she had been searching for Pangu and the Karmic Luck Origin entrance, which the Main System also sought before reaching level nine.
• Ling Yi stopped meditating and said he knew where the Karmic Luck Origin entrance was.

Ling Yi explained that the Main System had engineered his transmigrations to sustain the short drama world, but Water Ball had escaped its control and helped other systems break free. After resetting the world to his first meeting with Empress Ling Yan, Ling Yi prepared to make himself weaker in the next world so the plot would stay on track.

• Ling Yi told Zhao Yun that the Karmic Luck Origin was under control and he could defeat the Main System, but complained that Hongjun had to be brought back to patch up the plot.
• Uncle and Yin Wanqing arrived, and Ling Yi explained how the Main System had released Water Ball to keep him following the plot and generating Karmic Luck Origin.
• Ling Yi learned that Uncle had adopted a handsome AI-inspired appearance, received an AI program from Yin Wanqing, and discussed using AI as a cheat in a future world.
• Zhao Yun questioned the newcomers, and Ling Yi asked Uncle to reset the world to his first transmigration into Empress Ling Yan's world.
• Ling Yi adjusted his Infinite Passive Transmigration Aura to make himself a good-for-nothing with a useless system, then rewound the timeline to the imperial palace confrontation with Empress Ling Yan.

After being expelled on a false theft charge, Ling Yi learned about the original owner's tragic past and awakened the Good-for-Nothing Binding System. He set out to confront his second uncle's family, but Lin Qingya called out to him before he could leave.

• Ling Yi was expelled from Dafeng City First High Martial Arts Academy after the director of student affairs accused him of stealing pills.
• Ling Yi absorbed the original owner's memories and learned that Feng Lü had framed him after Lin Qingya chose Ling Yi as her deskmate.
• Ling Yi promised to avenge the original owner and awakened the Good-for-Nothing Binding System, which let him bind qualified good-for-nothings and gain their combined cultivation.
• Ling Yi searched for possible targets but found no one with a good-for-nothing score high enough to bind.
• Ling Yi decided to go to his second uncle's house and demand money, but Lin Qingya called out to him.

Lin Qingya offered Ling Yi compensation for his expulsion, but he rejected a job and asked her to help him find an abandoned school for a training class. He claimed he could help her break through to the Bone Tempering Realm, and the chapter left them heading to a restaurant as Lin Qingya wondered whether he had awakened a Bloodline Talent.

• Lin Qingya gave Ling Yi a business card and offered to help him find work or stay at school, but he declined both options.
• Ling Yi asked Lin Qingya to find an abandoned school for his training class, and she offered to fund it if he could convince her.
• Ling Yi learned that his Appraisal function could identify weaknesses in other people's cultivation techniques and offered to help Lin Qingya break through from 9.9 Qi and Blood.
• Ling Yi asked Lin Qingya to buy him a meal before they went to inspect the abandoned private High Martial Arts school, and she took him to the Supreme Freshness Restaurant.
• At the restaurant, Lin Qingya noted how much Ling Yi had changed and guessed that he might have awakened a Bloodline Talent.

Ling Yi and Lin Qingya visited a wealthy private academy, where Lin Qingya offered to rent the school for a week if Ling Yi could prove his worth. Ling Yi promised to help her break through in ten minutes, then spotted weaknesses in her Brute Image Force technique as she practiced.

• Lin Qingya questioned Ling Yi about his bloodline talent, but he refused to reveal it.
• Ling Yi and Lin Qingya ate a large meal of Demonic Beast seafood and turtle soup, raising Ling Yi’s Qi and Blood from 0.3 to 0.5.
• Lin Qingya brought Ling Yi to Invincible High Martial Arts First Private Academy, and he admired its size and wealth.
• Lin Qingya offered to rent the academy for a week and cancel the lease if Ling Yi failed to prove his value; Ling Yi proposed a thirty percent share and promised his trainees would win city and national competitions.
• Ling Yi told Lin Qingya to practice Brute Image Force, and as she circulated Qi and Blood, he saw weaknesses in her technique.

Ling Yi used his insight into Lin Qingya’s Brute Image Force to correct its breathing rhythm, helping her break through while discovering the technique had damaged her blood vessels. After Lin Qingya agreed to help him establish his academy and recover his family’s compensation, she gave him her saved allowance, leaving Ling Yi with support for his plans and expenses.

• Ling Yi identified thirty-three flaws in Lin Qingya’s Brute Image Force and told her to change one section of its breathing rhythm.
• Lin Qingya followed Ling Yi’s instruction, broke through to the Bone Tempering Realm, and saw her Qi and Blood rise as her blood vessels began to heal.
• Lin Qingya agreed to register the academy under Ling Yi’s name and sign an equity agreement, while warning that it would need to form a team and face challenges within three months.
• Ling Yi chose Trash Academy as the school’s name and asked Lin Qingya to help reclaim the compensation his second uncle’s family had taken.
• After Ling Yi jokingly called Lin Qingya Mom to ask for support, she gave him her bank card with her saved allowance.

Ling Yi recruited Lin Zihan and the twin sisters Jiang Hong and Jiang Lan into Trash Academy, binding them with his system and granting them powerful traits. Lin Zihan gained a gold-grade trait that made her stronger by devouring energy, while the twins received traits that gave them bloodlines through dancing.

• At Dafeng City Seventh High Martial Arts Academy, Ling Yi told Lin Qingya that Trash Academy recruited only people with high trash scores because his bloodline talent worked on them.
• Ling Yi found Lin Zihan weeping over her low Qi and Blood and the marriage alliance her clan planned for her, then invited her to join Trash Academy and promised she could reach the top hundred in a month.
• Lin Zihan accepted the offer despite having no money, hoping to escape her clan's plans and take control of her future.
• Ling Yi's system bound Lin Zihan, whose trash score was 82, and upgraded her Infinite Devouring trait to gold grade, allowing her to grow stronger by devouring any energy.
• Ling Yi then approached orphanage-raised twins Jiang Hong and Jiang Lan, bound them, and offered them a chance to make money for the orphanage.
• The system gave Jiang Hong Dancing Bing Han, which granted and improved an ice-cold bloodline through dancing, and Jiang Lan Dancing Qingyue, which granted and improved a moon bloodline through dancing.

Ling Yi’s unconventional training rapidly increased Lin Zihan, Jiang Hong, and Jiang Lan’s Qi and Blood, leaving Lin Qingya stunned by their progress. Lin Qingya left determined to ask Ling Yi how he had done it and to have him help her improve too.

• Ling Yi ordered Lin Zihan to eat Demonic Beast meat and Jiang Hong and Jiang Lan to dance for three hours as training.
• Lin Zihan’s Qi and Blood rose from below 1 to 3.5 after she ate two jin of First Tier Demonic Beast meat, and Lin Qingya confirmed the wristband reading was accurate.
• Lin Qingya discovered that Jiang Hong and Jiang Lan’s Qi and Blood had risen from 0.5 to 1.2 after ten minutes of dancing, and both sisters had awakened special bloodlines.
• Lin Qingya left the training room, overwhelmed by Ling Yi’s methods and determined to ask him to help her become stronger.

Ling Yi used his system to boost Lin Qingya’s Qi and Blood and agreed to meet her wealthy friends in exchange for support for his academy. Hoping to find more people to bind, he went out for a walk and spotted an elderly figure who seemed to qualify.

• Ling Qingya confronted Ling Yi about Lin Zihan and the others’ rapid Qi and Blood growth, then paid him to help her cultivate and support the academy.
• Lin Qingya offered to bring several wealthy friends with ordinary aptitude to Ling Yi, and he agreed to meet them.
• Ling Yi considered how to grow his strength and resources, then left the academy to look for more people who met his system’s requirements.
• Near a residential complex, Ling Yi saw a hunched, coughing figure and realized that even someone of advanced age could qualify for binding.

Ling Yi recruited Zhong Wudi, an eighty-year-old man, to the Trash Academy and bound him, discovering that his golden trait made cultivation faster with age. On his way home, Ling Yi witnessed two figures fall from the sky and found a dead man and a severely injured woman with a Thunder Dragon Bloodline.

• Ling Yi met Zhong Wudi, who complained about losing money after investing in the failed academy and argued that ordinary people were not trash.
• Ling Yi invited Zhong Wudi to join the Trash Academy, and Zhong Wudi agreed to visit the next morning.
• Ling Yi bound Zhong Wudi and discovered his golden trait, Growing Stronger with Age, which granted forty times cultivation speed at age eighty.
• Ling Yi bought an ice pop and headed back toward the academy before a lightning net appeared in the sky.
• Two figures crashed into the ground in front of Ling Yi; one man was dead, while a severely injured woman had a Thunder Dragon Bloodline and a good-for-nothing value of 92.